From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9RNbSIR021900 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:37:30 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E37FE1492814 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id jDr2fFPF06agBK85 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:37:21 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow inode64 mount option on 32 bit systems Message-ID: <20081027233721.GI4985@disturbed> References: <20081027133015.GC30607@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081027133015.GC30607@infradead.org> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:30:15AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Now that we've stopped using the Linux inode cache when can trivally > support the inode64 mount option on 32bit architectures. As far as the > kernel and most userspace is concerned this works perfectly, but > applications still using really old stat and readdir interfaces will get > an EOVERFLOW error when hitting an inode number not fitting into 32 > bits (that problem of course also exists when using these applications > on a 64bit kernel). > > Note that because inode64 is simply a mount option we can currently > mount a filesystem having > 32 bit inode numbers and cause a variety of > problems, all this is solved but this patch which enables XFS_BIG_INUMS, > even when inode64 is not used. > > (First sent on October 18th) > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by; Dave Chinner -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com