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

Felix Blyakher felixb at sgi.com
Thu Mar 26 17:37:11 CDT 2009


On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:

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> On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:30 AM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:12:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> 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"
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>> Sparse loopback image
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> OK I'm sold...

That addressed my concern too.

Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb at sgi.com>

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> Eric
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>> Cheers,
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>> Dave.
>> -- 
>> Dave Chinner
>> david at fromorbit.com
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