Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator

Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-09T17:14:51Z

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:06:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Maybe finally generate 64bit inum on 64bit arches...

Last I heard, Eric Sandeen took a look at this, and it'd break something
like 30-40% of the userspace shipped in RHEL 5 if run as 32-bit on a
64-bit kernel. IOW, keep inode numbers to 32-bit for now.

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