svn commit: r318757 - head

[Allan Jude]

On 2017-05-23 17:33, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 08:25:49PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
>> New Revision: 318757
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318757
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add note to UPDATING for ino64 to follow the standard upgrade process
>> ...
>> +20170523:
>> +	The "ino64" 64-bit inode project has been committed, which extends
>> +	a number of types to 64 bits.
> 
> For the dumb people among us, what is it all about?  E.g., what's so cool
> about it?
> 
> ./danfe
> 

64bit inodes allow you to have more than 4 billion files in one file
system, or NFS mount.

The project also includes fixing a number of other
long-standing-because-of-ABI changes, like the max length of a
mountpoint is now 1024 instead of some small value (60 or 80 or
something it was before)

-- 
Allan Jude

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