Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:19:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [FIX] missing piece from fs/super.c in -pre8 |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea. Reason: for > filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name > + root path to identify the superblock. And that can easily grow past > 32 bytes.
Since it is only used for printouts, I'd much rather have simpler code. Especially since I couldn't convince myself that all users in your version even initialized the dang pointer.
There is nothing wrong with having a requirement that informational stuff be limited to X characters..
Linus
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