[PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Mon Jun 6 05:47:43 GMT 2005
At 1:05 AM -0400 6/6/05, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
>
>On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:53 AM, Scott Long wrote:
>
>>It's a huge win for CPU overhead in the filesystem, especially
>>when we start talking about increasing the size of m_links
>>field and possibly going 64-bit inode numbers.
>
>Talking about going to 64-bit inode numbers, how would we deal
>with the change in stat(2)?
By making some sort of incompatible change to stat(2). This has
been discussed from time-to-time. It's another change that I
would have liked to have seen (at least for the stat routines)
in 6.0, but right now I suspect it will not happen until 7.0.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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