Re: kern/48797: Scale down cd9660 inode numbers by a factor of 32

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/48797; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/48797: Scale down cd9660 inode numbers by a factor of 32
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 21:36:05 +0200

 On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 06:15:00PM +0000, scdbackup%gmx.net@localhost wrote:
 > Most probably other callers of stat(2) are not prepared for
 > such large inode numbers either.
 
 Then let's fix the callers! We have had 64bit inodes for close to 10 years
 in NetBSD.
 
 Why should we especially trim CD9660 fs to make them fit in 32bit?
 
 We have several other filesystems where we can't easily do that, and
 callers would need to deal with those as well.
 
 On the other hand, the scaling is simple and could be done - does it have
 any other benefits?
 
 Martin