From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815090243.GT29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7619.1155630777@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:32:57AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > NAK. There's no need to touch i_ino and a lot of reasons for not doing
> > that.
>
> Like all those printks that write ambiguous messages because they can't report
> the full inode number? I'm not so worried about those because they're for the
> most part debugging messages, but still, they *can* report invalid information
> because i_ino is not big enough in error and warning messages.
In fs-independent code? How many of those do we actually have?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 9:02 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20060814211504.27190.10491.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <20060814211509.27190.51352.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
2006-08-15 1:31 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits Al Viro
2006-08-15 8:21 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 9:06 ` Al Viro
2006-08-15 8:32 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 9:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-08-15 9:25 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 12:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
[not found] ` <7329.1155630113@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
2006-08-15 9:13 ` [PATCH 0/4] Use 64-bit inode numbers internally in the kernel Al Viro
2006-08-15 6:57 [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits Jan Engelhardt
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