Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:06:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 7/8] inode-diet: Use a union for i_blocks and i_size, i_rdev and i_devices |
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:53:40PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The i_blocks and i_size fields are only used for regular files. So we > move them into the union, along with i_rdev and i_devices, which are > only used by block or character devices.
Can we please make this a named instead of unnamed union so everyone still using the fields will trip up? To reduce the impact a few more imajor/iminor conversions might be needed were direct references to i_rdev crept back in.
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