[PATCH 3/5] xfs: kill ino64 mount option

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Sat Mar 21 17:12:32 CDT 2009


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:54:51PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>>> The ino64 mount option adds a fixed offset to 32bit inode numbers
>>> to bring them into the 64bit range.  There's no need for this kind
>>> of debug tool given that it's easy to produce real 64bit inode numbers
>>> for testing.
>> hm, easy how?
> 
> Actually test with a large enough device and let them spread evenly
> over the AGs.

It's the large-enough device which sometimes is at odds with "easy"

-Eric




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