On Monday, July 19, 1999 11:08 AM, David Murn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
:
: > > Why has elks chosen a 16 bit inode number for stat when the rest of
: > > the world has 32 bit inode numbers? It probably is a good idea to use
: > > 32bit inode numbers.
:
: I'd say the simple answer is that because ELKS is targetted at 16bit (or
: less, ie. not 32bit) machines, that 32bit inode numbers aren't a good
: idea. Same reason that under Linux/x86, we use 32bit instead of 64bit,
: simply because we've got a 32bit CPU (or 16bit in the case of ELKS).
:
Actually, the inode width should be dependent on the size
of disks attached, not the processor specs...
