Scott Long <scottl_at_pooker.samsco.org> writes: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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 -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 14:04:08 UTC
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