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SubjectRe: VFS 64-bit clean
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> What are your plans? If you've not decided, here is space-saving
> suggestion for the inode:
>
> struct ext2_inode {
[snip]
> __u32 i_size; /* Size in bytes */
> __u32 i_atime; /* Access time */
> __u32 i_ctime; /* inode Change time */
> __u32 i_mtime; /* Modification time */
> __u32 i_dtime; /* Deletion Time */
after 2038, we'll need larger time.

> __u32 i_blocks; /* Blocks count */

The number of blocks needs to be higher when we have
64-bit sized files.

> union {
> __u32 i_dir_acl; /* Directory ACL (directories only) */
> __u32 i_size_high; /* high 32 bits of 64-bit size */
> } u2;

Looks good. Considering how well ext2 scales with large
directories, we don't really wand >2G directories :-)

Rik.
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