Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754276AbWL3JSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:18:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754280AbWL3JSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:18:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36982 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754276AbWL3JSD (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:18:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:18:00 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Adam Megacz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OpenAFS gatekeepers request addition of AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h Message-ID: <20061230091800.GA14871@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Adam Megacz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 28 On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 03:56:12PM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote: > > 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. We're not allocating these number for any other out of teee junk like vxfs or gpfs either. So I'd say stay away. p.s. and please stop that namedropping - beeing a 'gatekeeper' doesn't make you any more important than just beeing yourself - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/