From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
esandeen@redhat.com, aviro@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] make static counters in new_inode and iunique be 32 bits
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:21:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110212103.GA4425@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701082047.l08Kl7mh001917@dantu.rdu.redhat.com>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:47:07PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> When a 32-bit program that was not compiled with large file offsets does a
> stat and gets a st_ino value back that won't fit in the 32 bit field, glibc
> (correctly) generates an EOVERFLOW error. We can't do anything about fs's
> with larger permanent inode numbers, but when we generate them on the fly,
> we ought to try and have them fit within a 32 bit field.
>
> This patch takes the first step toward this by making the static counters in
> these two functions be 32 bits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Ok.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 20:47 [PATCH 1/3] make static counters in new_inode and iunique be 32 bits Jeff Layton
2007-01-10 21:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2007-01-16 18:57 Jeff Layton
2006-12-29 19:11 Jeff Layton
2007-01-26 12:42 ` Kirill Korotaev
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