Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932159AbXACWah (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:30:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932161AbXACWah (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:30:37 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:52165 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932159AbXACWag (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:30:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:30:24 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Frank van Maarseveen , Jan Harkes , Arjan van de Ven , Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks Message-ID: <20070103223024.GA5078@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1166869106.3281.587.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061229100223.GF3955@ucw.cz> <20070101235320.GS8104@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> <20070103185815.GA2182@janus> <20070103192616.GA3299@janus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 28 Hi! > >Sure it is. Numerous popular POSIX filesystems do that. There is a lot of > >inode number space in 64 bit (of course it is a matter of time for it to > >jump to 128 bit and more) > > If the filesystem was designed by someone not from Unix world (FAT, SMB, > ...), then not. And users still want to access these filesystems. > > 64-bit inode numbers space is not yet implemented on Linux --- the problem > is that if you return ino >= 2^32, programs compiled without > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 will fail with stat() returning -EOVERFLOW --- this > failure is specified in POSIX, but not very useful. Hehe, can we simply -EOVERFLOW on VFAT all the time? ...probably not useful :-(. But ability to say "unknown" in st_ino field would help.... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/