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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:23:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061106202313.GA691@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162838843.12129.8.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com>

On Mon, 6 November 2006 13:47:23 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:22 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:12:05PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > The attached patch remedies this by making the last_inode counter be an
> > > unsigned int on kernels that have ia32 compatability mode enabled.
> > 
> > ... and this only happens on ia64/x86_64 kernels, not sparc64, ppc64,
> > s390x, parisc64 or mips64?
> 
> Here's a new (untested) patch that replaces the ia32 specific
> compatability mode defines with CONFIG_COMPAT, as suggested by Matthew.

While you're at it, how about making last_ino per-sb instead of
system-wide?  ino collisions after a wrap are just as bad as inos
beyond 32bit.  And this should be a fairly simple method to reduce the
risk.

Also, do you have a testcase that can actually force the wrap?

Jörn

-- 
Don't patch bad code, rewrite it.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-06 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06 18:12 [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 18:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-06 18:31   ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 18:47   ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 20:23     ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2006-11-06 20:31       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-06 20:56         ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 20:50       ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-06 21:11         ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-06 21:36           ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-06 22:01             ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-07 15:56             ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 16:07               ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 16:10               ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-07 17:04               ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:28               ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:42                 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:53                   ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-11-07 18:07                     ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:56                   ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:01                     ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:10                       ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-07 19:41                     ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 20:41                       ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 21:13                         ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 21:20                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-07 22:09                             ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 18:01                 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 18:14                   ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:23                     ` Jeff Layton

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