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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:19:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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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:
>
> 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.

Since it is only used for printouts, I'd much rather have simpler code.
Especially since I couldn't convince myself that all users in your version
even initialized the dang pointer.

There is nothing wrong with having a requirement that informational stuff
be limited to X characters..

		Linus

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