From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Which features should I implement in my ext4 reader?
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:04:19 +0200
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Hello,

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:50 AM, jon ernst <jonernst07@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I don't quite understand why does Felipe suspect those padding 0s?
> What's wrong with it? Pardon my silly question.

My point is why there are exactly 3 zeroes of padding? Can sometimes
it be 2 zeroes? Or 1? Or none? How is this decided? Any tips to where
in the source code this padding is decided?

I am implementing my own ext4 reader library so I am not using the
standard library, so this kind of detail is very important to me to
make sure that my implementation is correct. For now I hard coded the
existence of 3 zeroes of padding, but maybe the amount could be
different?

Is it to make sure that the block of data starts aligned to 4-bytes?

thanks,
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho