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. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 03:47:43 UTC
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