Re: CephFS and 32-bit Inode Numbers

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Does your 32-bit application actually use the inode numbers? Or is it just trying to read other metadata (such as filenames in a directory, file sizes, etc)? If it's the latter, you could use LD_PRELOAD to wrap the calls and return fake/mangled inode numbers (since the application doesn't care about them anyway).

See here for more details: https://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/sw/inodes64.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Yan, Zheng <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:07 PM
To: Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ceph-users <ceph-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject:  Re: CephFS and 32-bit Inode Numbers

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 7:19 PM Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> One of our users has some 32-bit commercial software that they want to 
> use with CephFS, but it's not working because our inode numbers are 
> too large. E.g. his application gets a "file too big" error trying to 
> stat inode 0x40008445FB3.
>
> I'm aware that CephFS is offsets the inode numbers by (mds_rank + 1) * 
> 2^40; in the case above the file is managed by mds.3.
>
> Did anyone see this same issue and find a workaround? (I read that 
> GlusterFS has an enable-in32 client option -- does CephFS have 
> something like that planned?)
>

ceph-fuse has client_use_faked_inos option. When it is enabled, ceph-fuse maps 64bits inode numbers to 32bits. It works as long as client has less than 2^32 inodes cached. So far there is no kernel client counterpart.

Regards
Yan, Zheng

> Thanks!
>
> Dan
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