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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via pointer conversion)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:06:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163776015.13410.71.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163775685.17280.13.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 09:01 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:

> Wouldn't you only be able to only crack a few of the low-order bits due
> to a cluster of inodes being sequential?  I don't think you'd be able
> crack enough of it to be useful.  You may be able to determine where
> some inodes are relative to others, but I don't think you'd be able to
> point the their location in memory.  I don't know anything about crypto,
> so I could be wrong.
> 

On a 64-bit kernel, that would be the case. On a 32-bit kernel, there
are no high order bits to chop off, so this would effectively give you
the address.
-- Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17 13:43 [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via pointer conversion) Jeff Layton
2006-11-17 13:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-17 14:14   ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-17 14:24     ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-17 14:21   ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-17 16:31     ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-17 14:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-17 14:48   ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-17 15:01     ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-11-17 15:06       ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2006-11-17 15:26         ` Dave Kleikamp

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