Re: [PATCH] cramfs: generate unique inode number for better inode cache usage

Andrew Morton
2010-12-14T20:52:27Z

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:48:42 +0100
stefani@seibold.net wrote:

> This patch generates a unique inode numbers for any entries in the cram file
> system. For files which did not contain data's (device nodes, fifos and
> sockets) the offset of the directory entry inside + 1 will be used as the
> inode number.
>
> The + 1 for the inode will it make possible to distinguish between
> a file which contains no data and files which has data, the later one has
> a inode value where the lower two bits are always 0.
>
> It also reimplement the behavoir to set the size and the number of block
> to 0 for special file, which is the right value for devices, fifos and
> sockets.
>
> As a little benefit it will be also more compatible which older
> mkcramfs, because it will never use the cramfs_inode->offset for
> creating a inode number for special files.

Did you look at using iunique() to generate cramfs inode numbers?