>> 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)?

That's a good question; I'm not really sure.

>> 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.

Well, I'm not sure if AFS uses the atime field for the _real_
atime.  I have noticed that all AFS ports go out of their way to
use "unused" fields.  Since it seems that we can skimp together
enough room now, I'd rather stick with that :-)

--Ken