[PATCH 0/3] ubifs: add lz4hc compression

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 02:35:38 PST 2017


On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 10:12 +0900, Hyunchul Lee wrote:
> yes, it is an in-memory inode. but i think that there can be problem
> of 
> backward compatibility. for example, if ubifs_ino_node's compr_type
> is
> 4 in flash, the previous version of ubifs could misinterpret it as 0,
> because ubifs_inode's compr_type(2-bit) is assigned
> ubifs_ino_nodes' compr_type at ubifs_iget.

Good point. I guess changing the in-memory compr_type to something
wider right away would be a good idea, even if no new compressors are
added.



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