Subject: Re: more on dinode
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@arbld.unimelb.edu.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/1997 03:54:18
In some email I received from Jason Thorpe, sie wrote:
>
> /* dia_flags */
> #define DIAF_NEXT_VALID 0x00000001 /* dia_next is valid */
I don't think this is needed. That field should not be controlled by
a user and as such, it's either going to be 0 (no next) or point to
something useful. But, other flags might be useful..
> There should be a set of functions that:
>
> * allocate a fs block for a dinode_aux
Hmmm...I'd prefer to use inodes rather than disk blocks. Disk blocks
are quite large...