From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m8QESn2I032410 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:28:49 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B70729846F4 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id wVW9FtkrJEABrOBE for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48DCF1FE.3080305@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:30:22 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: inode64 question References: <20080926063050.GA20516@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080926063050.GA20516@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Justin Piszcz , xfs@oss.sgi.com 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