Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:16:15 -0500 | | From | Michael Halcrow <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] eCryptfs: ino_t to u64 for filldir |
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:51:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > filldir()'s inode number is now type u64 instead of ino_t. > > Btw, in ecryptfs_interpose(), you have: > > inode = iget(sb, lower_inode->i_ino); > > But you have to be *very* *very* careful doing that. i_ino may be > ambiguous. My suggestions to make i_ino bigger were turned down by > Al Viro; and even it were bigger, it might still not be unique.
Is this the case as long as we stay under the same mountpoint?
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