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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:49:13 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, 
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, 
	Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, 
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 13:36, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> If you have more than 4 billion inodes, something is really really wrong.

Btw, once again, the vfs layer function you took this from *does* have
some reason to worry. Somebody might be doing 'pipe()' in a loop.

Also, if your worry is "what if somebody mounts that thing a million
times", the solution to *that* would have been to make it a per-sb
counter, which I think would be cleaner anyway.

But my real issue is that I think you would be *much* better off just
deleting code, instead of adding new code.

For example, what purpose does 'e->dentry' and 'ei->d_childen[]' have?
Isn't that entirely a left-over from the bad old days?

So please try to look at things to *fix* and simplify, not at things
to mess around with and make more complicated.

              Linus