On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:53:37 -0500 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:10:37PM +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > > ..compiled without LFS support, but running on 64-bit kernel. > > > > Currently, when a broken (compiled without LFS support) 32-bit application on > > a 64-bit kernel tries to do a stat(), it fails with -EOVERFLOW error. This > > problem happens because the 32-bit application is unable to fit the huge > > 64-bit inode number in its target structure field. > > This is nothing cifs specific. Please do it in a generic way (e.g. > sysctl) in the VFS. > I also think a system-wide knob would be preferable. You could get rid of the module parm for NFS, and change iunique and get_next_ino to allow 64-bit inode numbers based on its setting. The only problem I see with a sysctl is that you can change the value at any time. What happens if you have a bunch of inodes in cache with large i_ino numbers and then change that setting? Something settable only at boot time might be better. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
