Geoff Keating wrote:
> >
> > This isn't a choice for a lot of people; again, NFS v3/v4 requires this.
> >
> > Having the kernel translate inode numbers can easily kill your system by
> > eating all your kernel memory...
>
> The only other approach I can think of is to simply have stat() (and
> fstat and so on) fail on files with inode numbers that don't fit in 32
> bits. The effect would be that you couldn't use most non-LFS programs
> on certain NFS v3/v4 filesystems.
>
I think that's the only reasonable thing to do. This, of course, means
that promulgating larger types becomes a pretty high priority.
> How were you planning to handle statically-linked applications?
See above.
-hpa
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