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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:35:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: simplifying linux_emul_convpath()
Message-ID:  <200401142135.i0ELZE7E040516@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114114851.46433J-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On 14 Jan, Robert Watson wrote:

> ino_t probably does need to get bumped to 64-bit on FreeBSD at some point,
> because at some point we will have a local file system that can usefully
> represent more than 2 billion files.  I assume we didn't do the bump with
> UFS2 because of the potential disruption for applications, etc.

We'd have a heck of a time fsck'ing such a file system on a 32 bit
machine.



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