From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965110AbXAJVVd (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:21:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965095AbXAJVVc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:21:32 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36964 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965110AbXAJVVH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:21:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:21:03 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Layton Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, esandeen@redhat.com, aviro@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] make static counters in new_inode and iunique be 32 bits Message-ID: <20070110212103.GA4425@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Layton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, esandeen@redhat.com, aviro@redhat.com References: <200701082047.l08Kl7mh001917@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701082047.l08Kl7mh001917@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:47:07PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > When a 32-bit program that was not compiled with large file offsets does a > stat and gets a st_ino value back that won't fit in the 32 bit field, glibc > (correctly) generates an EOVERFLOW error. We can't do anything about fs's > with larger permanent inode numbers, but when we generate them on the fly, > we ought to try and have them fit within a 32 bit field. > > This patch takes the first step toward this by making the static counters in > these two functions be 32 bits. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Ok.