* Re: ia32 userland and XFS [not found] <4934914C.7050707@cox.net> @ 2008-12-02 9:33 ` Aníbal Monsalve Salazar 2008-12-02 9:52 ` Christoph Hellwig 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar @ 2008-12-02 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ron Johnson; +Cc: debian-amd64, xfs [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 482 bytes --] Adding xfs@oss.sgi.com to the cc list so all the XFS folk see this. On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:37:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292806 > >According to this (seemingly 2+ year old) web page, the XFS file system >chokes on the combination of 32 bit userland and 64 bit kernel. > >Is this still true, and why should a low-level driver hidden under a >virtual fs care what user apps access it via the vfs? [-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 121 bytes --] _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: ia32 userland and XFS 2008-12-02 9:33 ` ia32 userland and XFS Aníbal Monsalve Salazar @ 2008-12-02 9:52 ` Christoph Hellwig 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2008-12-02 9:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: An?bal Monsalve Salazar; +Cc: Ron Johnson, debian-amd64, xfs On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:33:50PM +1100, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:37:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >According to this (seemingly 2+ year old) web page, the XFS file system > >chokes on the combination of 32 bit userland and 64 bit kernel. > > > >Is this still true, and why should a low-level driver hidden under a > >virtual fs care what user apps access it via the vfs? XFS as in the plain posix filesystem works perfectly fine with a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userspace. But various advance capabilities or administration interfaces which are used by tools from xfsprogs are implemented as ioctls, and unfortunately most of them have been designed very badly and aren't wordsize clean. There have been handlers for a few of them for a while, but only as of today a full set of compat handlers has been commited. That code will be release with 2.6.29, but could also be backported. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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