Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] find memory leak

[Dale R. Worley]

Goffredo Baroncelli <address@hidden> writes:
>> Or perhaps the inode
>> returned in stat() could contain a field to contain the snapshot
>> identifier along with the "base" i-node number.  (I guess we know the
>> snapshot identifiers don't exceed 255!)
>
> A bit more: ~2^64 ...
> However it is suggested to not make more of few hundreds....

Isn't the snapshot identifier currently mapped to the minor device
number?  And aren't those limited to 8 bits?

Dale