Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:21:11AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > NAK.  There's no need to touch i_ino and a lot of reasons for not doing
> > that.  ->getattr() can fill 64bit field just fine without that and there's
> > zero need to touch every fs out there *and* add cycles on icache lookups.
> > WTF for?
> 
> That doesn't fix getdents64() though...

Good grief...  Make filldir() eat u64 explicitly and fix all of a dozen
instances.  End of story.
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