Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 2/2] NFS: Represent 64-bit fileids as 64-bitinode numbers on 32-bit systems [try #2]

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 12:26:27 EST


On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:26 +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> - /* We set i_ino for the few things that still rely on it,
> - * such as stat(2) */
> - inode->i_ino = hash;
> + /* We set i_ino for the few things that still rely on it, such
> + * as printing messages; stat and filldir use the fileid
> + * directly since i_ino may not be large enough */
> + inode->i_ino = fattr->fileid;

Are there any plans to remove inode->i_ino? It would appear to have
outlived its usefulness.

Otherwise Acked...

Cheers,
Trond

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