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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:21:11 +0100
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To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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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.  ->getattr() can fill 64bit field just fine without that and there's
> zero need to touch every fs out there *and* add cycles on icache lookups.
> WTF for?

That doesn't fix getdents64() though...

David