On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:28:41PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 06effdbb49af5f6c "nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes)" > and previous patches solved problems with hash collisions in large > directories by using 64- instead of 32- bit directory hashes in some > cases. But it caused problems for users who assume directory offsets > are "small". Two cases we've run across: > > - older NFS clients: 64-bit cookies cause applications on many > older clients to fail. Is there a list of clients (and version numbers) which are having problems? > A "no_64bit_cookies" export option would provide a workaround for NFS > servers with older NFS clients, but not for applications like gluster. Why isn't it sufficient for gluster? Are they doing something horrible such as assuming that telldir() cookies accessed from userspace are identical to NFS cookies? Or is it some other horrible abstraction violation? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
