From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7AEnkO14645 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:49:46 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-65-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.18.65]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7AEnbV14624; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:49:38 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7AEm7e24931; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:48:07 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:48:07 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Steve Lord Cc: Seth Mos , Brandon Barker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS installer Message-ID: <20010810164807.A24889@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <200108101346.f7ADkQ307720@jen.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108101346.f7ADkQ307720@jen.americas.sgi.com>; from lord@sgi.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:46:26AM -0500 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:46:26AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > The page size == block size will get fixed, we need to do that, but it > may take a while. Block size less than pagesize will come first, blocksize > greater than pagesize needs PAGE_CACHE_SIZE to be bumped, which appears to > be on the cards for 2.5. > > V1 directories mostly work in Linux, but there are glibc getdents issues > with them. The glibc code which lseeks backwards in a directory is the issue, > if you have control over your glibc it can be fixed by using the 64 bit > version of lseek in this code. This is all because the directory offset in > V1 is a 64 bit hash value, not a 32 bit signed number. So in other words that means using kernel 2.4 / glibc 2.2 and for 32-bit systems building applications with the large file API. Ralf