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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:34:35 +0100 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>, Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, nfsv4@...f.org Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the > kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)? > > It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full > support for that (including syscalls that userspace can use to work with > such filesystem) --- but I don't see any point in having half-way support > in kernel as is right now. What would ino_t have to do with inode numbers? It is only used as a hash table lookup. The inode number is set in the ->getattr() callback. Cheers Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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