From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Convert XFS inode hashes to radix trees
Date: 04 Oct 2006 19:59:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73y7rwynbg.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061003222256.GW4695059__33273.3314754025$1159914338$gmane$org@melbourne.sgi.com>
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> writes:
>
> And yes, 64 bit systems are cheap, cheap, cheap so IMO this
> functionality is really irrelevant moving forward. If it had come
> along a couple of years ago then it would be different, but I think
> mainstream technology is finally catching up with XFS so it's not a
> critical issue anymore... ;)
One issue is that people often still run a lot of 32bit userland
even with 64bit kernels. The compat layer will just truncate
the inodes I think. But so far I haven't heard of anybody
complaining on x86-64.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-10-03 21:23 ` [RFC 0/3] Convert XFS inode hashes to radix trees Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-03 22:22 ` David Chinner
2006-10-04 0:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-04 1:43 ` David Chinner
2006-10-04 19:22 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20061003222256.GW4695059__33273.3314754025$1159914338$gmane$org@melbourne.sgi.com>
2006-10-04 17:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-10-05 0:37 ` David Chinner
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