* Re: newbie question about inode numbers
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@ 2010-10-20 13:51 ` David Nicol
2010-10-20 13:55 ` Felix Blanke
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From: David Nicol @ 2010-10-20 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Wow, vger categorically refuses HTML e-mail!
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the inode number is an "unsigned long" which on a 32 bit system may be merely 32 bits, yet btrfs allows a full 64 bits of files in a file system (which is impossible; but ZFS allows 128 bits of files, which is just silly.)
> My question is, how are inode number collisions prevented on a 32-bit system, with a fs with five billion files?
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* Re: newbie question about inode numbers
2010-10-20 13:51 ` newbie question about inode numbers David Nicol
@ 2010-10-20 13:55 ` Felix Blanke
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From: Felix Blanke @ 2010-10-20 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Nicol; +Cc: BTRFS MAILING LIST
Which is a really good thing!
HTML e-mails are useless and nobody should use them! I'm sure they came
directly from hell.
David Nicol schrieb:
> Wow, vger categorically refuses HTML e-mail!
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> the inode number is an "unsigned long" which on a 32 bit system may be merely 32 bits, yet btrfs allows a full 64 bits of files in a file system (which is impossible; but ZFS allows 128 bits of files, which is just silly.)
>> My question is, how are inode number collisions prevented on a 32-bit system, with a fs with five billion files?
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