On: `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode

[yusukeshinyama]

At line 655: "... In a sparse filesystem it will be the sequence of powers of 3, 5, and 7: ..."

So I think this means three = pow(3, 0);

[rockdoe → yusukeshinyama]

Doesn't explain why it's not 1, 1, 1 or 1, 5, 49.

[thaumasiotes → rockdoe]

It does, you're just not paying attention. The comment appears over the function that uses those variables; it's not 1,1,1 because they want to hit 1 only once in the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,25,27,49,81,125, etc.

It doesn't explain why it's not 3,1,7 or 3,5,1, but that's because there is no reason for that.

[rockdoe → thaumasiotes]

The full comment in the source explains it fine, but that's not what I'm replying to; who's not paying attention here?

The abbreviated quote I was replying to just confuses things by leaving out critical parts.