Re: [PATCH 05/16] GFS2: File and inode operations

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:53:16PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Actually, the 0x0080000 flag has been reserved by e2fsprogs for ext3
> > extents for a while already.  AFAICS, there are no other flags in the
> > current e2fsprogs that aren't listed above.
> > 
> So if I call that one IFLAG_EXTENT, then I presume that will be ok?
> What about the 0x00040000 flag? That would seem to be a gap in the
> sequence (ignoring GFS flags for now), so should I leave that reserved
> for use by ext2/3 as well?

note that at least reiserfs, jfs snd xfs seem to use additional flags aswell.
It would be really helpful if we could get a linux/fflags.h that collects all
of having them spread all over.  Anyone volunteering to create it?

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