From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:14:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20101009171447.GF10421@parisc-linux.org> References: <1286515292-15882-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1286515292-15882-16-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20101008095658.GA19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20101008100346.GA27737@infradead.org> <1286533219.2959.128.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20101008134821.GA15157@infradead.org> <1286546772.2959.372.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , Dave Chinner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:58353 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754168Ab0JIROu (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:14:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1286546772.2959.372.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:06:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Maybe finally generate 64bit inum on 64bit arches... Last I heard, Eric Sandeen took a look at this, and it'd break something like 30-40% of the userspace shipped in RHEL 5 if run as 32-bit on a 64-bit kernel. IOW, keep inode numbers to 32-bit for now. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."