Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:29:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>  what about 32-bit stats from 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems?  This will make 
>>  64-bit inode numbers commonplace in sysfs; will this cause problems?  it 
>>  seems that if they get truncated to 32 bits the possibility of duplicate 
>>  inode nrs will come back...
> 
> Yes, this turned out to be a problem as the ppc people found out :)
> 
> Tejun had some follow-on patches fixing this issue up.

Oops, missed that.  I'll go looking, thanks.

-Eric
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to