on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 12:33 (+0100) skreiv Bernd Schubert: > > I can see no good reason for truncating inode number values on platforms > > that actually do support 64-bit inode numbers, but I can see several > > Well, at least we would have a reason ;)
A 32-bit emulation mode is clearly a "platform" which does NOT support 64-bit inode numbers, however there is (currently) no way for the kernel to detect that you are running that. Any extra truncation should therefore ideally be done by the emulation layer rather than the kernel itself. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
