Re: "df -i" support

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:48:23 MDT, Andreas Dilger said:
> 
> 
>>Hmm, why wouldn't reiserfs_statfs() just use that number for the "in use"
>>inodes in the first place?  Sadly, the statfs() interface is broken in
>>the sense that it contains "total" inodes and "free" inodes instead of
>>"in use" inodes, but it shouldn't be difficult to just subtract the
>>number of in-use inodes from 2^32-1 and stick that into the "free" field
>>so that when user-space does the reverse it gets the right number.
> 
> 
> If you get a multi-terabyte filesystem that contains more than 2^32-1 files,
> things will get very pear-shaped....

If you get a ReiserFS v3 filesystem to contain more than 2^32-1 files, 
you've violated the disk format.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs