Re: [PATCH] iso9660 Inodes Anywhere and NFS

["Eric Lammerts" <eric@lammerts.org>]

"Paul Serice" <paul@serice.net> wrote:
> The inode number scheme was also changed.  Continuing to use the byte
> offset would have resulted in non-unique inodes in many common
> situations, but because the inode number no longer plays any role in
> reading the meta-data off the disk, I was free to set the inode number
> to some unique characteristic of the file.  I have chosen to use the
> block offset which is also 32-bits wide.

But what about 0-byte files? The block offset could be the same for all
0-byte files, or worse, it could be the same as the block offset of a
non-0-byte file.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but since a directory
record is always 34 bytes or bigger, why not simply divide the directory
record byte offset by 32? I.e.,

-   inode_number = (bh->b_blocknr << bufbits) + offset;
+   inode_number = (bh->b_blocknr << (bufbits - 5)) + (offset >> 5);

Eric