From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756041AbXD0QGI (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:06:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756046AbXD0QGH (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:06:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45990 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041AbXD0QGG (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:06:06 -0400 Message-ID: <46321F17.2090703@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:04:39 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Tejun Heo , maneesh@in.ibm.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, oneukum@suse.de, rpurdie@rpsys.net, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] sysfs: fix i_ino handling in sysfs References: <11760923274128-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <463216EA.20203@sandeen.net> <20070427153245.GA10999@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070427153245.GA10999@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:29:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> what about 32-bit stats from 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems? This will make >> 64-bit inode numbers commonplace in sysfs; will this cause problems? it >> seems that if they get truncated to 32 bits the possibility of duplicate >> inode nrs will come back... > > Yes, this turned out to be a problem as the ppc people found out :) > > Tejun had some follow-on patches fixing this issue up. Oops, missed that. I'll go looking, thanks. -Eric