Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits

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Forwarding to linux-fsdevel, because someone inadvertently added a # which 
caused postmaster to me.

Jan Engelhardt
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:48:40 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
    linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx#
Subject: Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits


>This patch changes __kernel_ino_t to be "unsigned long long" on all

Why not "uint64_t" (or u64)?


>--- a/include/asm-mips/stat.h
>+++ b/include/asm-mips/stat.h
>@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #if (_MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI32) || (_
> struct stat {
> 	unsigned	st_dev;
> 	long		st_pad1[3];		/* Reserved for network id */
>-	ino_t		st_ino;
>+	unsigned long	st_ino;
> 	mode_t		st_mode;
> 	nlink_t		st_nlink;
> 	uid_t		st_uid;

Will the kernel still fold 64-bit inums to 32-bit for stat[32]()?


Jan Engelhardt
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