On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:23:49PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This problem doesn't just apply to NFS. It applies to any filesystem that can > > generate 64-bit inode numbers - which includes Ext3, I believe > > Actually, Ext3 can't do 64-bit inode numbers. I'd misremembered what Stephen > told me. Nope, we've thought about using 64-bit inode numbers for ext4, however --- it would solve a number of problems for us. Unfortunately, given issues with 64-bit inods at the VFS, glibc, and userspace layers, we decided it wasn't worth the pain and suffering that would be involved.... - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
