From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:06:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815090645.GV29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7303.1155630071@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:21:11AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > NAK. There's no need to touch i_ino and a lot of reasons for not doing
> > that. ->getattr() can fill 64bit field just fine without that and there's
> > zero need to touch every fs out there *and* add cycles on icache lookups.
> > WTF for?
>
> That doesn't fix getdents64() though...
Good grief... Make filldir() eat u64 explicitly and fix all of a dozen
instances. End of story.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 21:15 [PATCH 0/4] Use 64-bit inode numbers internally in the kernel David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 1/4] Provide fallback full 64-bit divide/modulus ops for gcc David Howells
2006-08-15 6:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-15 8:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-15 8:29 ` David Howells
2006-08-18 8:39 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-18 10:33 ` David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits David Howells
2006-08-15 1:31 ` Al Viro
2006-08-15 8:21 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 9:06 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-08-15 8:32 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 9:02 ` Al Viro
2006-08-15 9:25 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 12:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-08-15 6:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 3/4] VFS: Clear up u-long-long ino_t print format warnings David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 4/4] VFS: Fix 64-bit ino_t warning in CacheFiles facility David Howells
2006-08-15 0:36 ` [PATCH 0/4] Use 64-bit inode numbers internally in the kernel Josh Boyer
2006-08-15 8:21 ` David Howells
2006-08-15 9:13 ` Al Viro
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