Re: [PATCH 1/2] handling 64bit values for st_ino]

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:52:15AM -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Two different sized types to describe inode numbers, different paths, etc.
> Having two of something, when just one would suffice, is usually more
> complicated.

_What_ different paths?  And what "two of something"?

The only requirement for fs that want to report wider st_ino is
to put the right value into kstat->ino in their ->getattr().

And there's already a plenty of filesystems using iget5() et.al.
for icache lookups - this isn't adding anything new.

As far as 64bit ino_t is concerned - no, thanks.  We'd need to walk through
all existing fs code and audit existing uses of ino_t.  Which is far more
of support burden.

And then there's an issue of overhead on normal icache lookups for nearly
all existing filesystems; ones that do wider lookup keys are *already* using
iget5(), BTW.   So you'll simply punish all users of iget().