Re: why is i_ino unsigned long, anyway?

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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:04:48AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:43:20AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 
> > Just for fun, I took a stab at an xfs-specific method.
> > 
> > Pretty much untested and probably wrong as I know nothing about xfs, but
> > it does seem like it allows some minor simplifications compared to the
> > common helper.
> > 
> > But as Christoph says other filesystems have the same problem so we
> > probably want to fix the common helper anyway.
> 
> You'll need this in at least ext4, btrfs, gfs2, ocfs2 and probably more.
> So fixing this for real sounds like the best deal.

Based on "git grep '\bget_name\b' fs/".... Actually gfs2 and btrfs
already have their own get_name methods.  They look like they probably
handle 64-bit inodes fine.

That leaves xfs, ext4, and ocfs2.

Anyway I'm still in favor of fixing the helper.

--b.
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