Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751270AbWJEAhj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751276AbWJEAhi (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:37:38 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:59042 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270AbWJEAhi (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:37:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:37:12 +1000 From: David Chinner To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Chinner , xfs-dev@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com, dhowells@redhat.com, LKML Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Convert XFS inode hashes to radix trees Message-ID: <20061005003712.GD3024@melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20061003060610.GV3024@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061003212335.GA13120@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20061003222256.GW4695059__33273.3314754025$1159914338$gmane$org@melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 28 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:59:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. Which is one of the reasons why XFS uses 32 bit inodes by default even on 64 bit kernels. XFS does not use 64 bit inodes unless you tell it to via the inode64 mount option.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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/