Hi!
> >Sure it is. Numerous popular POSIX filesystems do that. There is a lot of
> >inode number space in 64 bit (of course it is a matter of time for it to
> >jump to 128 bit and more)
>
> If the filesystem was designed by someone not from Unix world (FAT, SMB,
> ...), then not. And users still want to access these filesystems.
>
> 64-bit inode numbers space is not yet implemented on Linux --- the problem
> is that if you return ino >= 2^32, programs compiled without
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 will fail with stat() returning -EOVERFLOW --- this
> failure is specified in POSIX, but not very useful.
Hehe, can we simply -EOVERFLOW on VFAT all the time? ...probably not
useful :-(. But ability to say "unknown" in st_ino field would
help....
Pavel
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