Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:14:47 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator |
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:06:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Maybe finally generate 64bit inum on 64bit arches...
Last I heard, Eric Sandeen took a look at this, and it'd break something like 30-40% of the userspace shipped in RHEL 5 if run as 32-bit on a 64-bit kernel. IOW, keep inode numbers to 32-bit for now.
-- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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