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Subject: Re: Solved - How to change the FSINFO for nfsd?
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 16:15 +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> Using xfs filesystem on a gentoo 64bit linux with 2.6.22 kernel,
> when mounting the FSINFO return got was 7f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff.
> 
> Assuming that xfs is 64bit,
> the FSINFO returned is still not ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff.
> 
> Used wireshark to see the FSINFO return.
> 
> P.V.Anthony

XFS is 64-bit, but file sizes are of type off_t or loff_t, and are
therefore _signed_.
0x7fffffffffffffff is therefore indeed the maximum allowed file size for
a 64-bit filesystem.

Trond