From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable inode64 by default when possible
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:21:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412062158.GF2493@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBFE478.3090901@hardwarefreak.com>
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:37:44PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Alex Elder put forth on 4/9/2010 5:01 PM:
>
> > OK, it's been about two months since Eric proposed this, and
> > I'm finally getting around to writing up a response.
> >
> > I discussed this with a few people within SGI, and there were
> > two main concerns that were mentioned:
> > - This may be a problem for some NFS clients
> > - This may be a problem for some backup software
> > We don't believe there are any direct issues with DMF or CXFS
> > in making this change.
> >
> > I understand that the change is only in the default behavior,
> > and that forcing 32-bit inodes will still be an available
> > option.
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> How will this change affect those people running 32bit CPUs and kernels, if
> at all? Or is this change related not to the word width of the hardware/OS
> but to the size of the filesystem and/or number of files/inodes contained
> within? You mentioned possible issues with NFS. Are there any issues with
> Samba?
>
> Intel Atom (32bit x86) CPUs
No, I think Atom is 64 bit.
/me checks his mailserver
Yup, it's running a 64 bit kernel and 64 bit userspace. No 32 bit
issues there....
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-13 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-10 19:32 [PATCH] enable inode64 by default when possible Eric Sandeen
2010-02-10 20:04 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-02-10 20:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-02-10 20:42 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-04-09 22:01 ` Alex Elder
2010-04-10 2:37 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-04-10 3:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-12 6:21 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-04-13 6:35 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-04-14 6:57 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-12 6:12 ` [RFC, PATCH] inode64 feature bit (was Re: [PATCH] enable inode64 by default when possible) Dave Chinner
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