Hi! > >Sure it is. Numerous popular POSIX filesystems do that. There is a lot of > >inode number space in 64 bit (of course it is a matter of time for it to > >jump to 128 bit and more) > > If the filesystem was designed by someone not from Unix world (FAT, SMB, > ...), then not. And users still want to access these filesystems. > > 64-bit inode numbers space is not yet implemented on Linux --- the problem > is that if you return ino >= 2^32, programs compiled without > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 will fail with stat() returning -EOVERFLOW --- this > failure is specified in POSIX, but not very useful. Hehe, can we simply -EOVERFLOW on VFAT all the time? ...probably not useful :-(. But ability to say "unknown" in st_ino field would help.... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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
