Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers

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Jeff Layton wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
 > change pipefs to use a unique inode number equal to the memory
 > address unless it would be truncated.
 >
 > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[email protected]>
 > ---
 > Tested on i386.
 >
 > --- 2.6.19/fs/pipe.c.ori    2007-01-30 22:02:46.000000000 +0100
 > +++ 2.6.19/fs/pipe.c    2007-01-30 23:22:27.000000000 +0100
 > @@ -864,6 +864,10 @@ static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(voi
 >      inode->i_uid = current->fsuid;
 >      inode->i_gid = current->fsgid;
 >      inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
> + /* The address of *inode is unique, so we'll get an unique inode number. > + * Off cause this will not work for 32 bit inodes on 64 bit systems. */
 > +    if (sizeof(inode->i_ino) >= sizeof(struct inode*))
 > +        inode->i_ino = (unsigned int) inode;
 >
 >      return inode;
 >

Also, that patch would break many 32-bit programs not compiled with large
offsets when run in compatibility mode on a 64-bit kernel. If they were to
do a stat on this inode, it would likely generate an EOVERFLOW error since
the pointer address would probably not fit in a 32 bit field.

That problem was the whole impetus for this set of patches.


Actually, sorry...I misread the patch. It wouldn't have that problem. My
mistake.

Still though, I considered an approach somewhat similar to this early on.
I was thinking of taking a bit-shifted inode address and hashing it to
give a unique value. If you do the math, you can discard the lower 9 bits
of the pointer, so you end up being able to use the lower 41 bits of the
pointer. So a scheme like that could work if you could guarantee that
all inode addresses wouldn't be > 2^41 apart.

The problem is, you can't guarantee that, especially in a NUMA situation.

See the thread entitled:

[RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without
permanent inode numbers (via pointer conversion)

in linux-fsdevel, ~Nov 17th for more info.

-- Jeff
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