From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752103AbWLONFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:05:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752102AbWLONFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:05:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38028 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752100AbWLONFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:05:36 -0500 Message-ID: <45829D94.1090304@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:05:24 -0500 From: Jeff Layton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akpm@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ensure unique i_ino in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (introduction) References: <457891E7.10902@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <457891E7.10902@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Layton wrote: > Apologies for the long email, but I couldn't come up with a way to explain > this in fewer words. Many filesystems that are part of the linux kernel > have problems with how they have assign out i_ino values: > If there are no further comments/suggestions on this patchset, I'd like to ask Andrew to add it to -mm soon and target getting it rolled into 2.6.21. Once it's in -mm, I'll start posting more patches to convert the other filesystems. Andrew, are the patches I've already posted sufficient, or should I resend the set? Thanks, Jeff