Re: [PATCH v9 04/11] f2fs: describe orphan block layout dynamically

[Chao Yu]

On 9/4/26 07:56, Kelvin Zhang wrote:
> An on-disk orphan block contains a variable-length array of 32-bit
> inode numbers followed by a fixed footer at the end of the block. A
> compile-time whole-block structure cannot represent the footer position
> when the block size varies at runtime.
>
> Remove struct f2fs_orphan_block, introduce
> struct f2fs_orphan_block_footer, and compute sbi->orphans_per_block
> dynamically in init_sb_info(). Add helpers to access the inode entry array
> and footer from a block buffer.
>
> Update orphan inode recovery, checkpointing, and mount paths to use the
> parameterized helpers. This preserves the on-disk format while decoupling
> orphan handling from compile-time constants.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kelvin Zhang <zhangxp1998@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,