Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Finding hardlinks | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:34:35 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:14 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Why don't you rip off the support for colliding inode number from the > kernel at all (i.e. remove iget5_locked)? > > It's reasonable to have either no support for colliding ino_t or full > support for that (including syscalls that userspace can use to work with > such filesystem) --- but I don't see any point in having half-way support > in kernel as is right now.
What would ino_t have to do with inode numbers? It is only used as a hash table lookup. The inode number is set in the ->getattr() callback.
Cheers Trond
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