Subject: Re: dinode: di_spare[2]
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/05/1997 08:57:14
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> When I last looked at that, I was told that the JFS stuff was
> seriously bit-rotted.  I have no idea if that's the case.

Hmm, isn't the aux-inode stuff just used with aix 2 or something (i.e,
not at all)?

> There are nominally 5 32-bit fields needed.

Is anything besides the fileserver ever going to do anything with
these inodes? If not, you could use any unused field, like atime.

/Johan