Subject: Re: Use of c_spare field in dumps, accidentally was tomorrow, 1/21 (fwd)
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/21/1999 13:24:07
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:00:19 -0800 (PST) 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > Is 128 bits enough? Can we have fat inodes?

128 bits?

sizeof(int32_t) * 32 == 128 _bytes_

 > > Does anyone know of anything which uses the c_spare field of the
 > > u_spcl.s_spcl structure, which is declared under
 > > /usr/include/protocols/dumprestore.h? We have some local mods which give
 > > us 128 extra bytes per inode to deal with, and want to be able to dump
 > > them. The c_spare field is defined as:
 > > 
 > > int32_t c_spare[32];        /* reserved for future uses */

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>