Re: [patch-2.4.0-test5-pre3] struct inode shortened

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 04:12:13 EST


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> Only one of i_rdev and i_size are needed at a time, so we could union
> them.

can't be done quietly. Too much noise generated by the fact that
ext2_inode_info uses the field called i_size so if one defines i_size as
u1.u_size then ext2_fs_i.h will stop compiling. So, one would have to
rename ext2_inode_info->i_size to something else, i_fsize?

Regards,
Tigran

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