Re: Finding hardlinks

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 14:55:27 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:50:11PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I don't see any problems with changing struct kstat. There would be
> reservations against changing inode.i_ino though.
>
> So filesystems that have 64bit inodes will need a specialized
> getattr() method instead of generic_fillattr().

And they are already free to do so. And no, struct kstat doesn't need
to be changed - it has u64 ino already.
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