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 o3A2Zt8s161474 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:35:56 -0500 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 532512B2807 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 7uD10BhRC9HxDxXb for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2717A6C3DC for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:37:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4BBFE478.3090901@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:37:44 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable inode64 by default when possible References: <4B7309D7.5090800@sandeen.net> <1270850499.7840.25.camel@doink> In-Reply-To: <1270850499.7840.25.camel@doink> 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: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 and XFS on multi terabyte disks are popular with many folks running Linux based media PCs, streaming their ripped DVDs and other large media files from their XFS filesystems. I don't personally do this, but I also have 32bit only systems that won't be replaced with 64bit CPUs for some time to come. Thanks. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs