Pending TrustedBSD stuff, etc.
Garance A Drosehn
gad at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 1 16:56:23 UTC 2007
At 10:34 AM +0100 6/1/07, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>Things I would like to see happen, but may not get to:
>
>- Peter Wemm has been talking about moving us to 64-bit inode numbers
> for years; with the advent of very large file systems and their
> presumed popularity over the coming 3-5 years, it would be really
> good to have this in 7.0 or it will have to wait for 8.0. However,
> this is quite a disruptive change, as it requires package rebuilds,
> etc, and we're almost out of time.
I suspect this should wait. It would probably be better to group
together all the other changes to filesystem stat-ish data that we've
also been talking about for years, and do them all in the same major
release. I don't know at what level you mean to move to 64-bit inode
numbers, but if (for instance) you meant a 64-bit value for st_ino,
then I'd also like to see a 64-bit value for st_dev at the same time.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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