From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: fscache review comments, part 1 Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:40:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20489.1159796454@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <20060928164529.GA3497@infradead.org> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:24971 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932322AbWJBNlG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:41:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060928164529.GA3497@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Unfortunately there's a lot of broken userspace that can't deal > with 64bit inode numbers, so you need to make the lod behaviour > a mount option at least, probably even the default. Given that > we're going to run into problems like that it might make sense > to make the option VFS-level instead of just in nfs. (Note: > XFS already has an option like that) This really needs fixing quite urgently. We've seen it break ld.so/libdl (and other things, but dynamic loading is one of the major pains as it's not entirely obvious). David