Re: rfc: kill ino64 mount option

Dave Chinner
2008-06-28T00:08:18Z

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.

That being said, I don't really if it goes or stays...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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