On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Linus, I doubt that making the thing inline was a good idea. Reason: for
> > filesystems like NFS we almost definitely want something like server name
> > + root path to identify the superblock. And that can easily grow past
> > 32 bytes.
>
> Since it is only used for printouts, I'd much rather have simpler code.
> Especially since I couldn't convince myself that all users in your version
> even initialized the dang pointer.
Set to NULL when we allocate superblock.
Allocated and set by get_sb_bdev() (which takes care of block filesystems)
Allocated and set by nfs_read_super() (which takes care of NFS).
That covers all users...
> There is nothing wrong with having a requirement that informational stuff
> be limited to X characters..
In principle - yes...
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