On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:27, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > If the inode size is not 128 bytes, why do we still read `sizeof (struct > grub_ext2_inode)' bytes from disk?
Because we don't need more than that. > What is the layout of a non-128-byte > inode? There is extra space right after the traditional inode structure. Currently, it can be used only for xattr. If you are interested in the details, look at fs/ext3/inode.c in Linux. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
