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Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem
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Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes:
> We can't go making incremental incompatibilities to the filesystem
> without a good deal of planning.  This is the type of thing that
> would go into a 'UFS3'.

This is primarily an API issue, not a filesystem layout issue.  We
already have at least one filesystem with 64-bit inodes (msdosfs).

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