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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Update mount options documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:15:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50803926.1010904@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121018170442.GA6634@andromeda.usersys.redhat.com>

On 10/18/12 12:04, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:05:32AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> On 10/18/12 11:00, Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> Mark Tinguely wrote:
>>>> Would "Indicates that XFS is allowed to create inodes at locations up to
>>>> 32 bits of significance .."
>>>
>>> I prefer the original wording. Your suggestion says something about what
>>> XFS can do, but nothing about what it is not allowed to do, which is
>>> rather more important.
>>>
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>>
>> I see your point. Sounds good to me.
>>
>> --Mark.
>>
> This means no change is needed?
>

I am okay with what is written about creating inodes.

On a separate question, should something be mentioned that inode32 mode 
can still read/write/unlink any inode, even those number greater than 32 
bit, or will that confuse the inode creation point?

--Mark.


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18 15:28 [PATCH] xfs: Update mount options documentation Carlos Maiolino
2012-10-18 15:50 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-18 16:00   ` Dave Howorth
2012-10-18 16:05     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-18 17:04       ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-10-18 17:15         ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-10-18 18:40           ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-11-08 17:47             ` Ben Myers

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