linux-kernel - Re: Finding hardlinks

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Date:	Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:54:58 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat.  There would be
> reservations against changing inode.i_ino though.
> 
> So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized
> getattr() method instead of generic_fillattr().

And they are already free to do so.  And no, struct kstat doesn't need
to be changed - it has u64 ino already.
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