* Re: newbie question about inode numbers [not found] <AANLkTinE03sBL=K3xfL41VZyFLhafNxHooheTv1PSQTD@mail.gmail.com> @ 2010-10-20 13:51 ` David Nicol 2010-10-20 13:55 ` Felix Blanke 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: David Nicol @ 2010-10-20 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: BTRFS MAILING LIST Wow, vger categorically refuses HTML e-mail! On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: > > the inode number is an "unsigned long" which on a 32 bit system may be merely 32 bits, yet btrfs allows a full 64 bits of files in a file system (which is impossible; but ZFS allows 128 bits of files, which is just silly.) > My question is, how are inode number collisions prevented on a 32-bit system, with a fs with five billion files? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: newbie question about inode numbers 2010-10-20 13:51 ` newbie question about inode numbers David Nicol @ 2010-10-20 13:55 ` Felix Blanke 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Felix Blanke @ 2010-10-20 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Nicol; +Cc: BTRFS MAILING LIST Which is a really good thing! HTML e-mails are useless and nobody should use them! I'm sure they came directly from hell. David Nicol schrieb: > Wow, vger categorically refuses HTML e-mail! > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: >> the inode number is an "unsigned long" which on a 32 bit system may be merely 32 bits, yet btrfs allows a full 64 bits of files in a file system (which is impossible; but ZFS allows 128 bits of files, which is just silly.) >> My question is, how are inode number collisions prevented on a 32-bit system, with a fs with five billion files? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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