On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:53 AM, 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. Makes sense. generic sysctl probably fine. -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
