On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:22:56AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:23:35PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:06:10PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > > Overall, the patchset removes more than 200 lines of code from the
> > > xfs inode caching and lookup code and provides more consistent
> > > scalability for large numbers of cached inodes. The only down side
> > > is that it limits us to 32 bit inode numbers of 32 bit platforms due
> > > to the way the radix tree uses unsigned longs for it's indexes
> >
> > commit afefdbb28a0a2af689926c30b94a14aea6036719
> > tree 6ee500575cac928cd90045bcf5b691cf2b8daa09
> > parent 1d32849b14bc8792e6f35ab27dd990d74b16126c
> > author David Howells <[email protected]> 1159863226 -0700
> > committer Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 1159887820 -0700
> >
> > [PATCH] VFS: Make filldir_t and struct kstat deal in 64-bit inode numbers
> >
> > These patches make the kernel pass 64-bit inode numbers internally when
> > communicating to userspace, even on a 32-bit system. They are required
> > because some filesystems have intrinsic 64-bit inode numbers: NFS3+ and XFS
> > for example. The 64-bit inode numbers are then propagated to userspace
> > automatically where the arch supports it.
> > [...]
> >
> > Doing this will mean XFS won't be able to support 32-bit inodes on
> > 32-bit platforms the above (merged) patch --- though given that cheap
> > 64-bit systems are now abundant does anyone really care?
>
> That's a good question. In a recent thread on linux-fsdevel about
> these patches Christoph Hellwig pointed out that 32bit user space is
> not ready for 64 bit inodes, so it's probably going to be a while
> before the second half of this mod is ready (which exports 64 bit
> inodes ito userspace on 32bit platforms).
Ahhh.... I think I misread what Chris wrote here - _32_ bit inodes on
32 bit platforms not working? I can't see how this would be the
case with the mods I posted given that they are entirely internal to
XFS and don't change any external inode number interfaces. And the
above commit shouldn't break XFS either.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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