From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 6 05:47:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB1E16A425; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966E943E13; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:47:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j565kwBi028174; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:46:59 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <0A6C1F19-A734-4EC8-BE97-2D000D189968@FreeBSD.org> References: <82ACAD58-B179-44E2-852F-60F25C0BBBC1@FreeBSD.org> <20050606033145.GA80739@www.portaone.com> <42A3D6CF.2000504@samsco.org> <0A6C1F19-A734-4EC8-BE97-2D000D189968@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:46:57 -0400 To: Suleiman Souhlal , Scott Long From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: current@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:47:43 -0000 At 1:05 AM -0400 6/6/05, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > >On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:53 AM, Scott Long wrote: > >>It's a huge win for CPU overhead in the filesystem, especially >>when we start talking about increasing the size of m_links >>field and possibly going 64-bit inode numbers. > >Talking about going to 64-bit inode numbers, how would we deal >with the change in stat(2)? By making some sort of incompatible change to stat(2). This has been discussed from time-to-time. It's another change that I would have liked to have seen (at least for the stat routines) in 6.0, but right now I suspect it will not happen until 7.0. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu