On 03/02/2014 01:17 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
Can we get some definition of "legacy" here? kernel/nfs-utils versions?
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I'd have to check what I can share. If it helps: not current RHEL or
recent Fedora, until recently some that were over five years old. Also
this comment in the XFS FAQ: "Beware that some old programs might have
problems reading 64bit inodes" which seems to be related to stat vs
stat64, there are some old programs that might require us to modify.
Just to be clear, defaults are only important when you install. I don't think
anyone is suggesting compiling out the ext4 code from the kernel so this should
be of zero impact to someone running a file year old system who wants to upgrade
to something modern.
If you need to stay on that five year old system and not upgrade, I am not sure
I understand why it would be a reasonable example.
As other people have mentioned, there are ways to create an XFS instance that
does not use 64 bit inodes (but that is *not* a sane default since the problems
you refer to are not common with modern apps).
Ric
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