From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikulas Patocka Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:12:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20061220195458.GH17561@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.125]:49302 "EHLO artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030350AbWLTUMt (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:12:49 -0500 To: Al Viro In-Reply-To: <20061220195458.GH17561@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat. There would be >> reservations against changing inode.i_ino though. >> >> So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized >> getattr() method instead of generic_fillattr(). > > And they are already free to do so. And no, struct kstat doesn't need > to be changed - it has u64 ino already. I see, I should have checked recent kernel. Mikulas