Re: Filesystem specific information in inode overwritten

Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:08:23 +0100 (CET)


> > Look at unit 'u' in inode structure in fs.h
> > You see that pipe_inode_info and socket share space with filesystem
> > specific information.
>
> Ah, one more person who noticed this lossage. Welcome to the club. I've
> sent the fix, but it was waay too close to 2.2.0, so... Linus told that
> while it looked OK for 2.3 it was *not* a 2.2-pre material.

So I'll have to add 'char bug_workaround[64]' at the beginning of
struct hpfs_inode_info. Grrrr.

Mikulas

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