linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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Date:	Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:41:35 +0100
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

On Tue, 7 November 2006 14:41:04 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
>   How about this patch instead here? I don't think anything depends on
> i_ino being any certain value for these files, and this seems less
> "magic-numbery". This should also mostly prevent us from assigning out
> i_ino=0.

nfsctl_transaction_write() appears to depend on i_ino.

Jörn

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