From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n679br9i135713 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 04:37:53 -0500 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 43E719F20AE for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (enyo.dsw2k3.info [195.71.86.239]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 5lnjPOsbiLbYIFxQ for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:38:02 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] default to inode64 on 64-bit systems Message-ID: <20090707093802.GA32125@citd.de> References: <4A52419E.5020301@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A52419E.5020301@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Eric Sandeen Cc: xfs mailing list On 06.07.2009 13:25, Eric Sandeen wrote: > I'm tiring of telling people to use the inode64 mount option > when they are experiencing bad performance on large xfs > filesystems... > > 32-bit userspace is still largely broken when it comes to still > using 32-bit stat calls, but on 64-bit systems this should be > safe. > > The only problem here is moving the disk onto a 32-bit system, or using > 32-bit apps. But I think it's a small risk. > > What do we think about the following? What is with people running 64bit kernel but 32bit Userspace? Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs