linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE

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Message-ID: <20240126143714.3eb81db4@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:37:14 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel
 <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Ajay Kaher
 <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
 linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Give files a default of PAGE_SIZE size

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:06:33 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:41, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > Fine, but I still plan on sending you the update to give all files unique
> > inode numbers. If it screws up tar, it could possibly screw up something
> > else.  
> 
> Well, that in many ways just regularizes the code, and the dynamic
> inode numbers are actually prettier than the odd fixed date-based one
> you picked. I assume it's your birthdate (although I don't know what
> the directory ino number was).

Yeah, it was. I usually use that when I need a random number. I avoid using
it for passwords though. The odd directory number was the date you pulled
in eventfs ;-)

-- Steve