In some mail I received from Jason Thorpe, sie wrote
> 
> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:09:44 +1100 (EST) 
>  Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> wrote:
> 
>  > One person mentioned that it should be done so that only one 32bit longword
>  > is used and that is to store the actual inode address of the `next inode'
>  > and its type would be stored in-block.  The advantage was if you changed
> 
> Heh... see the suggestion I just posted on this subject :-)
> 
> The main difference is that I want to keep the additional info in a
> mostly-opaque "aux" structure.

I think we're thinking along the same lines - just that I haven't said
what else you'd put in an EIII except for the required details which
need to be the same for all.

Darren