From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 10 17:10:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761AC37B42A for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0364.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.109] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kEKG-0003fU-00; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:10:08 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8C03DB.E673B495@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:09:47 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t References: <65691.1015791493@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >As to strategy, I guess we could start by adding two new fields to > >'struct stat', which would be the 64-bit ones. We could truncate > >the 32-bit value and put that in the current fields. Some #define > >would govern whether a program sees st_dev and st_ino as the 32-bit > >values or the 64-bit values. That's the easy solution to the struct, > >but of course it doesn't address all the things which work with > >dev_t and ino_t. That's what we would have to work on over time. > > No, we can't change the size of struct stat (binary compatibility!) I think the first thing we would change, wee we to "go hog wild" would be to make times in seconds 64 bits, anyway... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message