Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

Andi Kleen
2005-03-03T21:45:06Z

> So what do you actually suggest? On the one hand you say even 32bit userspace
> supports 64bit inodes, if it wants. On the other hand you say the truncation
> needs to be done on file system level.
> To my mind this is contradicting, the first statement suggests to do the
> truncation in userspace, the second says it can only be done in the kernel?

We have to live with glibc not supporting this, so it would be probably
best to always do the truncation in NFS.

-Andi