Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 07:50:36 EST


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:43 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> May be, but there are only 5 bytes left.

There are 5 uint32_ts left. And then there would be 3.

> But why would you need more UUID bytes?

People are mostly using 16-byte UUIDs. We only have space to expose 8
bytes. It just seems to make sense to expose all 16.

But there's no overriding reason to do it, really.

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
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