From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: inode64 question
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:20:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927012019.GT27997@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DCF1FE.3080305@sandeen.net>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:30:22AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:44:33PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >> If I mount the fs with -o inode64, can I mount it again later say under
> >> knoppix 32bit without any options, will the FS still mount? The 64-bit
> >> rescue cd/dvds--I have had problems with to say the least.
> >
> > Not yet. I'll hopefully get a patch for it into 2.6.28.
>
> Actually it *will* at least mount, won't it? But that's dangerous. I
> don't think xfs sets any kind of superblock flag saying "I contain
> inodes past 2^32, don't mount on 32-bit boxes" does it?
Right. It will mount, but what happens with inodes past 2^32 is
undefined. You might be lucky - you might not....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 23:44 inode64 question Justin Piszcz
2008-09-26 6:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26 14:30 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-27 1:20 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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