On 2017-05-23 17:33, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 08:25:49PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote: >> New Revision: 318757 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318757 >> >> Log: >> Add note to UPDATING for ino64 to follow the standard upgrade process >> ... >> +20170523: >> + The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends >> + a number of types to 64 bits. > > For the dumb people among us, what is it all about? E.g., what's so cool > about it? > > ./danfe >
64bit inodes allow you to have more than 4 billion files in one file system, or NFS mount. The project also includes fixing a number of other long-standing-because-of-ABI changes, like the max length of a mountpoint is now 1024 instead of some small value (60 or 80 or something it was before) -- Allan Jude
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