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SubjectRe: [PATCH 30/32] union mount: ext2 fallthru support
On May 18, 2009  18:09 +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/ext2_fs.h b/include/linux/ext2_fs.h
> index bd10826..f6b68ec 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ext2_fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ext2_fs.h
> @@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ enum {
> EXT2_FT_SOCK,
> EXT2_FT_SYMLINK,
> EXT2_FT_WHT,
> + EXT2_FT_FALLTHRU,
> EXT2_FT_MAX

The EXT2_FT_WHT is not declared in e2fsprogs::lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
so you risk hitting a conflict here if someone isn't looking at
the "should be left alone" ext2 code. Secondly, it is somewhat
dangerous to use a straight enum here, because this will reassign
values of later variables if one of the earlier ones is removed.

For enums like this that require specific constant on-disk values
I prefer being safe:

enum {
EXT2_FT_UNKNOWN = 0,
EXT2_FT_REG_FILE = 1,
EXT2_FT_DIR = 2,
EXT2_FT_CHRDEV = 3,
EXT2_FT_BLKDEV = 4,
EXT2_FT_FIFO = 5,
EXT2_FT_SOCK = 6,
EXT2_FT_SYMLINK = 7,
EXT2_FT_WHT = 8,
EXT2_FT_FALLTHRU = 9,
EXT2_FT_MAX


It probably also makes sense to include a patch for ext3/ext4 to ensure
these values are not used by some unrelated feature.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.



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