On Aug 15, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> There is another use of the fields: fsck uses them to compute the  
> prototype
> superblock. But it does not seem to break anything when you get rid  
> of them.

In fact, how would fsck handle this if checking the file system on any  
number of disk partition formats that do NOT support these fields?

-- thorpej