Re: [PATCH 4/5] xfs: remove m_litino

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:57:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > With the upcoming v3 inodes the inode data/attr area size needs to be
> > calculated for each specific inode, so we can't cache it in the superblock
> > anymore.
> 
> hm, ok, but why do this now?

It could be considered a cleanup as there's no point in caching a
constant expression in the superblock.  More importantly I want to get
as many of the CRC preparation patches upstream so that I don't have
to keep rebasing them.