On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:01:32PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Al commented he doesn't like that. He also think we should give the > 64bit inode numbers a try, so I'd say: > > o add an inode32 option for nfs that mirrors the XFS option > o turn it off by default in -mm and see what goes boom Unfortunately, that technique will not find any problems -- the people running systems with 64 bit inode numbers do not overlap with those running the -mm tree. The only real way to get any exercising of the relevant code paths would be to fake 64 bit inode numbers in a commonly used filesystem like ext3. The biggest difficultly with LFS has been that the API breakage is relatively silent; old applications work fine unless they encounter a large file, resulting in many lax applications. -ben -- "Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important." Don't Email: <dont@xxxxxxxxx>. - 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
