On Nov 13, 2008 22:10 -0500, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:04:02PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > There is a similar fix missing from ext2fs_allocate_inode_bitmap() (even > > though there isn't any support for 64-bit inode numbers as yet. > > That's a question I have: Should the 64-bit port have partial support > for 64-bit inodes? Supporting 64-bit inodes is enough effort and risk > (especially in terms of glue code to convert back to 32-bit versions) > that I think it makes sense to wait until we know more about what they > will look like and have concrete plans to support them. I agree, in general, but this kind of wordsize overflow bug is easy to miss, and we may as well only have to figure out the bug once. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
