From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Blanke Subject: Re: newbie question about inode numbers Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:55:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4CBEF4D4.7000805@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Cc: BTRFS MAILING LIST To: David Nicol Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: 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 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? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html