Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:30:24 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Finding hardlinks |
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Hi!
> >Sure it is. Numerous popular POSIX filesystems do that. There is a lot of > >inode number space in 64 bit (of course it is a matter of time for it to > >jump to 128 bit and more) > > If the filesystem was designed by someone not from Unix world (FAT, SMB, > ...), then not. And users still want to access these filesystems. > > 64-bit inode numbers space is not yet implemented on Linux --- the problem > is that if you return ino >= 2^32, programs compiled without > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 will fail with stat() returning -EOVERFLOW --- this > failure is specified in POSIX, but not very useful.
Hehe, can we simply -EOVERFLOW on VFAT all the time? ...probably not useful :-(. But ability to say "unknown" in st_ino field would help....
Pavel
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