Re: [PATCH 4/4] eCryptfs: ino_t to u64 for filldir

[Michael Halcrow]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:51:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > filldir()'s inode number is now type u64 instead of ino_t.
> 
> Btw, in ecryptfs_interpose(), you have:
> 
> 	inode = iget(sb, lower_inode->i_ino);
> 
> But you have to be *very* *very* careful doing that.  i_ino may be
> ambiguous.  My suggestions to make i_ino bigger were turned down by
> Al Viro; and even it were bigger, it might still not be unique.

Is this the case as long as we stay under the same mountpoint?

Mike
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