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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:11:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [FIX] missing piece from fs/super.c in -pre8
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> 	/me scratches head wondering how the ^*#! did it manage to disappear
> from the version of patch sent to Linus...

After another look...  I see what had happened, but...

Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea.  Reason: for
filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name
+ root path to identify the superblock.  And that can easily grow past
32 bytes.

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