On Wed, 15 November 2006 10:27:20 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I agree with these problems, but I liked your earlier approach to fixing > them. I don't particularly like the idr approach because, as you say, > it will reuse numbers rapidly. Is that a problem for nfs only? Or are there others. For nfs, Jeff already increments i_generation, so the (i_ino|i_generation) tupel is not rapidly reused. > Why is it these filesystems don't add their inodes to the hashtable? > Might that not be a more profitable approach to fixing this problem? To keep the hashtable small, as per hch's request. Jörn -- /* Keep these two variables together */ int bar; - 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