Re: 32bit apps and inode64

Ben Myers
2013-02-19T19:11:18Z

Hey Jeff,

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:13:28PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 02/16/2013 05:46 AM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:06:40PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >> i've discovered some problems on a host with a disk > 1TB. We've some
> >> binary 32bit applications which are not able to read some directory
> >> anymore after we've formated and installed the system using vanilla
> >> 3.7.7 kernel.
> >>
> >> Right now we're using 3.0.61 kernel on this host - so 64bit apps work
> >> well and newly created files get 32bit inode numbers as inode64 is not
> >> the default.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to find / get all 64bit inode files / dies and convert
> >> them back to 32bit without a reinstall?
> >
> > On IRIX you could use xfs_reno to renumber those inodes.
> > http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/a_man/cat1/xfs_reno.z
> >
> > xfs_reno was ported to linux in '07 and was most recently reposted by Jeff Liu:
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-11/msg00425.html
> The old patch set was belong to the infrastructures of online shrinking
> support. Recently, I realized that I have made a few mistakes in swap
> inodes ioctl(2) implementation when I revisit the old patch set at:
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-11/msg00414.html
>
> Since we have user request and this function is independent to the
> shrinking feature, I'd like to work on it at first if you like it.

That sounds good to me. xfs_reno is a worthwhile feature.

Regards,
Ben