On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:41:10AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
> Okay, I suspected that might be the case. No plans to ever invert that,  
> so that userspace has to explicitly set the shorter truncbits for  
> backwards compat?

That's up to the userspace implementation.  If its configuration
allows explicit trunc bits then just use whatever the user says.
Otherwise it'll have to make a policy decision.  For example, a
big warning when upgrading and changing the default to the correct
value.

Cheers,
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