Re: Knfsd filehandles on 64-bit CPUS

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:17:27 -0400 (EDT)

Now that all the important stuff fits, we have 4 bytes left over.
That is where i_version goes, according to the original design.
The *BSD people seem to do that, with the name "i_gen" AFAIK.

As I was looking at this, I noticed the inode has:

unsigned long i_blksize;
unsigned long i_blocks;
unsigned long i_version;
unsigned long i_nrpages;

Shouldn't those be __u32 (or unsigned int) instead? There are a couple
other inode fields that seem to be needlessly large, and a couple that
look needlessly small (small being slow on some hardware).

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