Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alfred M. Szmidt" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1 blocks(Kernel) | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:36:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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So, if fs creator is Linux then HURD doesn't try to use those fields?
As I recall it (don't have access to the source code here), the file-system translator will return EOPNOTSUPP if you try and set a passive translator on a non-Hurd owned file-system. Passive translators are the only kind of translators which write any kind of data back to the acutal file-system.
For the case of st_author/i_author, when the file is created on a non-Hurd owned file-system, it will simply return whatever i_uid/st_uid is.
Not that we will be in a rush to use these fields, but it would be good to know what i_mode_high is used for in case it ever becomes relevant for Linux we would want to keep it the same meaning as HURD.
Once again, as I recall it (a bit better this time), i_mode_high is used for the actual bits that define if there is a translator (and what kind) on a node or not.
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