RE: rfs (new filesystem for ELKS)

[David Murn]

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:

> > Why has elks chosen a 16 bit inode number for stat when the rest of 
> > the world has 32 bit inode numbers? It probably is a good idea to use
> > 32bit inode numbers. 

I'd say the simple answer is that because ELKS is targetted at 16bit (or
less, ie. not 32bit) machines, that 32bit inode numbers aren't a good
idea.  Same reason that under Linux/x86, we use 32bit instead of 64bit,
simply because we've got a 32bit CPU (or 16bit in the case of ELKS).

Davey