Hello, Jeffrey Altman, one of the gatekeepers of OpenAFS (the open source project which inherited the Transarc/IBM AFS codebase) has requested that the magic number 0x5346414F (little endian 'OAFS') be allocated for the f_type field of the fsinfo structure on Linux:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2006-December/024829.html I would like to offer the patch below for inclusion in the source tree, if possible. The patch adds it to include/linux/magic.h, mostly as a way of publishing this number and ensuring that no other filesystem accidentally uses it. - a --- include/linux/magic.h 2006-12-29 15:48:50.000000000 -0800 +++ include/linux/magic.h 2006-11-29 13:57:37.000000000 -0800 @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ #define ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5 #define AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadff -#define AFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x5346414F #define AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x0187 #define CODA_SUPER_MAGIC 0x73757245 #define EFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x414A53 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
