Re: erofs: Question on unused fields in on-disk structs

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Thu Aug 22 2019 - 10:39:29 EST


Hi Richard,

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 04:29:44PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:21 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It might make life easier for other kernel developers if "features"
> > was named "compat_features" and "requirements" were named
> > "incompat_features", just because of the long-standing use of that in
> > ext2, ext3, ext4, ocfs2, etc. But that naming scheme really is a
> > legacy of ext2 and its descendents, and there's no real reason why it
> > has to be that way on other file systems.
>
> Yes, the naming confused me a little. :-)

Sorry for confusing... And thanks, I'm happy that
you give us those reports. and sorry about my poor
English...

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>
> --
> Thanks,
> //richard