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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	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 09:21:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7303.1155630071@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060815013114.GS29920@ftp.linux.org.uk>

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...

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-15  8:21 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 [this message]
2006-08-15  9:06       ` Al Viro
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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