On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:15:16 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Thursday 28 March 2002 12:21 pm, Eric P. McCoy wrote: > > I'd also like to implement BSD- and e2fs-style file flags/attributes > > (particularly user- and system-immutable and append-only inodes). > > Obviously di_mode is where those belong, but I'll need at least 4 > > bits and there only _seem_ to be two available (0x10000000 and > > 0x01000000). So how should I solve this? Seems that I could "share" > > (or "steal") the bits with OS/2, but I'm not sure how badly this > > would break compatibility.
> 0x00400000, 0x00200000, 0x00100000, and 0x00080000 are also available, > aren't they? Well, this is part of my problem. "Available" how? As in, not assigned to anything else in the Linux code? Yes. As in, not _used_ by anything else? I have no idea. I was actually wrong to say that 0x100... and 0x010... were available: they aren't in IRASH. If I can use those bits, great. But discontiguous "reserved" regions make me nervous: they make me think that those bits are actually getting used elsewhere and I will break stuff by using them. -- Eric McCoy (reverse "ten.xoc@mpe", mail to "ctr2sprt" is filtered) "Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that was sticking up your ass." - John Novak, rasfwrj _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
