Re: [PATCH 01/14] sysfs: fix i_ino handling in sysfs

[Eric Sandeen]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:29:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>  what about 32-bit stats from 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems?  This will make 
>>  64-bit inode numbers commonplace in sysfs; will this cause problems?  it 
>>  seems that if they get truncated to 32 bits the possibility of duplicate 
>>  inode nrs will come back...
> 
> Yes, this turned out to be a problem as the ppc people found out :)
> 
> Tejun had some follow-on patches fixing this issue up.

Oops, missed that.  I'll go looking, thanks.

-Eric
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