Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:06:45 +0100 | | From | Al Viro <> | | Subject | Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits |
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:21:11AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > NAK. There's no need to touch i_ino and a lot of reasons for not doing > > that. ->getattr() can fill 64bit field just fine without that and there's > > zero need to touch every fs out there *and* add cycles on icache lookups. > > WTF for? > > That doesn't fix getdents64() though...
Good grief... Make filldir() eat u64 explicitly and fix all of a dozen instances. End of story. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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