Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933018AbWL1Qf0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:35:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932948AbWL1Qf0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:35:26 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:33799 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932839AbWL1QfZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:35:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:26:15 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jeff Layton cc: Benny Halevy , Mikulas Patocka , Arjan van de Ven , Jan Harkes , Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@ietf.org Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks In-Reply-To: <4593E8CC.8090401@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20061221185850.GA16807@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <1166869106.3281.587.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4593890C.8030207@panasas.com> <4593C524.8070209@poochiereds.net> <4593DEF8.5020609@panasas.com> <4593E8CC.8090401@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 19 On Dec 28 2006 10:54, Jeff Layton wrote: > > Sorry, I should qualify that statement. A lot of filesystems don't have > permanent i_ino values (mostly pseudo filesystems -- pipefs, sockfs, /proc > stuff, etc). For those, the idea is to try to make sure we use 32 bit values > for them and to ensure that they are uniquely assigned. I unfortunately can't > do much about filesystems that do have permanent inode numbers. Anyway, this could probably come in handy for unionfs too. -`J' -- - 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/