From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Subject: Re: Which features should I implement in my ext4 reader? Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:41:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130819050803.GA10882@gmail.com> <20130820103956.GA7846@gmail.com> <20130902120718.GB1106@gmail.com> <20130904053503.GA3518@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: jon ernst Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:54405 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757607Ab3IEHlx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 03:41:53 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kl13so1552307pab.34 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:41:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > Is it to make sure that the block of data starts aligned to 4-bytes? Hello, Ok, I just checked here experimentally and it is indeed padding to 4-bytes... Does the same padding exist if the attribute is in a block as opposed to being in the space after the inode? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho