From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow inode64 mount option on 32 bit systems
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:21:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027012125.GE11948@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081026203440.GC4173@infradead.org>
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we've stopped using the Linux inode cache when can trivally
> support the inode64 mount option on 32bit architectures. As far as the
> kernel and most userspace is concerned this works perfectly, but
> applications still using really old stat and readdir interfaces will get
> an EOVERFLOW error when hitting an inode number not fitting into 32
> bits (that problem of course also exists when using these applications
> on a 64bit kernel).
>
> Note that because inode64 is simply a mount option we can currently
> mount a filesystem having > 32 bit inode numbers and cause a variety of
> problems, all this is solved but this patch which enables XFS_BIG_INUMS,
> even when inode64 is not used.
Looks ok.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 1:21 UTC|newest]
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2008-10-26 20:34 [PATCH 2/2] allow inode64 mount option on 32 bit systems Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-27 1:21 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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2008-10-27 13:30 Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-27 23:37 ` Dave Chinner
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