From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o3D1InbA177974 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:18:49 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A5FFC2BA417 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail13.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.98]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id O8Evl1Pew6YGXoAp for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:21:58 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable inode64 by default when possible Message-ID: <20100412062158.GF2493@dastard> References: <4B7309D7.5090800@sandeen.net> <1270850499.7840.25.camel@doink> <4BBFE478.3090901@hardwarefreak.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BBFE478.3090901@hardwarefreak.com> 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: Stan Hoeppner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:37:44PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Alex Elder put forth on 4/9/2010 5:01 PM: > > > OK, it's been about two months since Eric proposed this, and > > I'm finally getting around to writing up a response. > > > > I discussed this with a few people within SGI, and there were > > two main concerns that were mentioned: > > - This may be a problem for some NFS clients > > - This may be a problem for some backup software > > We don't believe there are any direct issues with DMF or CXFS > > in making this change. > > > > I understand that the change is only in the default behavior, > > and that forcing 32-bit inodes will still be an available > > option. > > Hi Alex, > > How will this change affect those people running 32bit CPUs and kernels, if > at all? Or is this change related not to the word width of the hardware/OS > but to the size of the filesystem and/or number of files/inodes contained > within? You mentioned possible issues with NFS. Are there any issues with > Samba? > > Intel Atom (32bit x86) CPUs No, I think Atom is 64 bit. /me checks his mailserver Yup, it's running a 64 bit kernel and 64 bit userspace. No 32 bit issues there.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs