Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:03:59 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem Message-ID: <863brvqxow.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20050606095117.Q52957@pooker.samsco.org> (Scott Long's message of "Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:57:04 -0600 (MDT)") References: <82ACAD58-B179-44E2-852F-60F25C0BBBC1@FreeBSD.org> <20050606033145.GA80739@www.portaone.com> <42A3D6CF.2000504@samsco.org> <0A6C1F19-A734-4EC8-BE97-2D000D189968@FreeBSD.org> <p06210238bec98dba5697@[128.113.24.47]> <42A453B5.3020006@samsco.org> <86oeaj1r2x.fsf@xps.des.no> <42A463EF.5060401@samsco.org> <86fyvvqzil.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050606095117.Q52957@pooker.samsco.org>
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Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org> writes: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Changing the stat(2) API to support 64-bit inodes does not require us > > to simultaneously change the on-disk layout of every filesystem we > > support to use 64-bit inodes. However, if we want to fully support > > filesystems with 64-bit inodes (such as FAT32, which currently uses a > > convoluted hack to map the 64-bit offset of a directory entry into a > > 32-bit inode), we need to change the API. > Ah, I see your point. Well, it's not too late to address this for 6.0, > and it might be a really good idea to think about it now. Is there > anything else that should be bumped along with it? Not that I know of. I believe the best way to do this is the way Linux did it: introduce new *stat64() syscalls and keep the old ones around. #define magic in <sys/stat.h> will take care of making *stat64() look like *stat(). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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