From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: rfc: kill ino64 mount option
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:23:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080628152303.GA22484@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080628000914.GE29319@disturbed>
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:09:14AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:39:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Does anyone have objections to kill the ino64 mount option? It's purely
> > a debug tool to force inode numbers outside of the range representable
> > in 32bits and is quite invasive for something that could easily be
> > debugged by just having a large enough filesystem..
>
> It's the "large enough fs" that is the problem. XFSQA uses
> small partitions for the most part, and this allows testing
> of 64 bit inode numbers with a standard qa config.
Well, it allows showing 64bit inode numbers to userspace. All XFS
internal codepathes are still using the smaller inode numbers and we
only add a fixed offset to them just before the inode number is returned
to userspace.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-28 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 15:39 rfc: kill ino64 mount option Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-28 0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2008-06-28 0:46 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-06-28 4:31 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-06-28 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-28 19:52 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-01 8:07 ` Christoph Litauer
2008-07-01 14:12 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-07-01 14:45 ` Christoph Litauer
2008-06-28 15:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-29 23:13 ` Nathan Scott
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