Re: NFS to Irix server broken again in 2.4.9

[David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:03:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com> writes:
> 
>      > Previous 2.4.X kernels didn't require the 32bitclients option
>      > on the IRIX server for some reason.
> 
> That was because prior to 2.4.9 the kernel would automatically
> truncate the getdents() offsets to 32 bits. We now have true 64 bit
> offsets, and they actually get passed back to userland.
> 
> glibc-2.x's 32 bit version of readdir() still assumes that
> getdents64() syscall returns some an offset (rather than a cookie) and
> that the offset fits into 32bits on ordinary directories.
> Using '32bitclients' on these older IRIX servers sort of shoehorns
> them into the glibc assumptions in the same way the 32 bit truncation
> in kernels 2.4.[0-8] did.

Hmm, the the server I'm running is IRIX 6.5.12 which isn't that old.  IRIX
6.5.13 was only released a little while ago (with some specific IRIX/Linux
NFS fixes according to the changelog) so I assume that with 6.5.13 we won't
need the 32bitclients options.

Thanks for the info.

-Dave