At 10:34 AM +0100 6/1/07, Robert Watson wrote: > >Things I would like to see happen, but may not get to: > >- Peter Wemm has been talking about moving us to 64-bit inode numbers > for years; with the advent of very large file systems and their > presumed popularity over the coming 3-5 years, it would be really > good to have this in 7.0 or it will have to wait for 8.0. However, > this is quite a disruptive change, as it requires package rebuilds, > etc, and we're almost out of time. I suspect this should wait. It would probably be better to group together all the other changes to filesystem stat-ish data that we've also been talking about for years, and do them all in the same major release. I don't know at what level you mean to move to 64-bit inode numbers, but if (for instance) you meant a 64-bit value for st_ino, then I'd also like to see a 64-bit value for st_dev at the same time. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn_at_rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USAReceived on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 14:56:23 UTC
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