Re: Should block-number-in-file vars be using blkcnt_t?

Mingming Cao wrote:

> 
> These three: freei, avefreei(number of inodes) and ndirs (number of
> directories) are not related to 16TB ext3 fixes, IMHO.
> 
> Do we want to mix the type fixes for inodes/directories with the 32bit
> ext3 block type fix here? I suspect we might need more work to increase
> the #of inodes per filesystem.

But as the filesystem gets bigger, can't we fit more inodes in, 
potentially overflowing 31 bits?  I guess I need to go look at the 
ratios and mkfs thresholds again ...

Hmm but you're right, I have not audited inode number containers in 
general...

Thanks,

-Eric

> Others looks okay to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mingming
> 


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