Hi, Please help me with this question. I was working with Certain NFS server implimentations which returns 64bit fileids. Linux seems to be converting these 64 bit file ids to 32bit inode numbers before storing it in the inode table (Inode information is filled by lookup inode operation, which calls nfs_lookup, which then calls nfs_fhget). Because of this converstion from 64 bit to 32 bit, there could be duplicate inode numbers in VFS inode list ( Do not doubt it, I have seen it practically and bit difficult to explain, but it happens). Will the system run in to some issues if there is duplicate inode numbers ?. As far as I know, all the access to inode list is through dentry cache. So it should not be a problem, I guess. Is there any kernel functions which purely works with inode numbers to locate the inode details from the inode list ? Any ideas ? Thanks Aboo -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
