On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:22:08PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > This patch is a first step at correcting these problems. It declares a > new file_system_type flag (FS_I_INO_DYNAMIC). If this is set, then when > new_inode is called, we'll use the IDR functions to generate a unique > 31-bit value, leaving the first 100 inode numbers for statically > allocated stuff like root inodes, etc. At inode deletion time, we > idr_remove it so the i_ino value can be reused. NAK. All calls of new_inode() are triggered from within fs code; there's no reason to introduce flags (which should be the last resort) when you bloody well can have a separate helpers for that case and have them called. Explicitly. - 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
