From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Remove i_ext_generation from ext4_inode_info structure Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:59:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20081108085928.GK3184@webber.adilger.int> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Alex Zhuravlev To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM ([192.18.43.133]:63752 "EHLO sca-es-mail-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752561AbYKHI7b (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 03:59:31 -0500 Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA88xVvc016418 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:59:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0KA000A01BJ3V800@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from adilger@sun.com) for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:59:30 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Nov 04, 2008 18:47 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > ext4_inode_info.i_ext_generation isn't used by anything. Was there an > intent to use it for something in the future? Alex was going to use this at one point in the future, but it never happened. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.