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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: inode64 question
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:30:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DCF1FE.3080305@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080926063050.GA20516@infradead.org>

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?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 14:28 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 [this message]
2008-09-27  1:20     ` Dave Chinner

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