Re: any chance we could dump the 64k subdirectory limit before 2.4 ships?

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 22:18:51 EST


On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:46:24PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> So it's a work a-la 32-bit *ID one... We may need to change stat()
> eventually, but we'ld better decide what's going in there and do it
> _once_. As it is, we already have 3 versions of each of {f,l,}stat(), all
> with slightly different field sizes - just look into fs/stat.c... Adding
> one more may be needed, but we'ld better make sure that it will be the
> last one.

 * increase ino_t to 64 bits. This is currently not handled by glibc and
   is required for XFS.

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