Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751520AbWL2Kew (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:34:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbWL2Kew (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:34:52 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]:44844 "EHLO pat.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751079AbWL2Kev (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:34:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks From: Trond Myklebust To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Benny Halevy , Jan Harkes , Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@ietf.org In-Reply-To: References: <20061221185850.GA16807@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <1166869106.3281.587.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4593890C.8030207@panasas.com> <1167300352.3281.4183.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:34:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1167388475.6106.51.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=12.0, autolearn=failed, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5) X-UiO-Scanned: 6F67C93B556E7C92F9A51CAF27AF8E47DF118A28 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: 83.109.147.16 spam_score -49 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the > kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)? > > It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full > support for that (including syscalls that userspace can use to work with > such filesystem) --- but I don't see any point in having half-way support > in kernel as is right now. What would ino_t have to do with inode numbers? It is only used as a hash table lookup. The inode number is set in the ->getattr() callback. Cheers Trond - 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/