Re: [FIX] missing piece from fs/super.c in -pre8

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 23:11:27 EST


On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> /me scratches head wondering how the ^*#! did it manage to disappear
> from the version of patch sent to Linus...

After another look... I see what had happened, but...

Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea. Reason: for
filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name
+ root path to identify the superblock. And that can easily grow past
32 bytes.

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