On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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.... VFS is fine with those... glibc probably should be OK; userland might be nasty, though. - 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
