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 09:32:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7619.1155630777@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.
Like all those printks that write ambiguous messages because they can't report
the full inode number? I'm not so worried about those because they're for the
most part debugging messages, but still, they *can* report invalid information
because i_ino is not big enough in error and warning messages.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 8:33 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
2006-08-15 9:06 ` Al Viro
2006-08-15 8:32 ` David Howells [this message]
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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