Subject: Re: 64 bit inode changes
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/16/2005 08:30:46
On Aug 15,  9:53pm, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: 64 bit inode changes

| On Aug 15, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > It is unclear to me. I will have to look at the code more. In the  
| > meantime,
| > is it ok if I commit the changes? I will fix whatever lossage  
| > occurs...
| 
| I haven't looked at the diff just yet, but...
| 
| You need to have a compatibility version of "struct vnd_user" and any  
| associated ioctls.

Thanks I missed that too.

| What did you do for all the compat stat structures that use ino_t ...  
| just convert them to uint32_t?

I don't think that any of them do. Most of them use svr4_ino_t etc (or they
should if they don't already).

| There is some sketchy stuff with ino_t in svr4_stream.c (and  
| svr4_32_stream.c)

I will look into it, thanks.

christos