Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161905AbWJDSAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:00:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161546AbWJDR71 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:59:27 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:59274 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161239AbWJDR7T (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:59:19 -0400 To: David Chinner Cc: xfs-dev@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, dhowells@redhat.com, LKML Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Convert XFS inode hashes to radix trees References: <20061003060610.GV3024@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061003212335.GA13120@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20061003222256.GW4695059__33273.3314754025$1159914338$gmane$org@melbourne.sgi.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 04 Oct 2006 19:59:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20061003222256.GW4695059__33273.3314754025$1159914338$gmane$org@melbourne.sgi.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 14 David Chinner writes: > > And yes, 64 bit systems are cheap, cheap, cheap so IMO this > functionality is really irrelevant moving forward. If it had come > along a couple of years ago then it would be different, but I think > mainstream technology is finally catching up with XFS so it's not a > critical issue anymore... ;) One issue is that people often still run a lot of 32bit userland even with 64bit kernels. The compat layer will just truncate the inodes I think. But so far I haven't heard of anybody complaining on x86-64. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/