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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
    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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