On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:40:54 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Unfortunately there's a lot of broken userspace that can't deal > > with 64bit inode numbers, so you need to make the lod behaviour > > a mount option at least, probably even the default. Given that > > we're going to run into problems like that it might make sense > > to make the option VFS-level instead of just in nfs. (Note: > > XFS already has an option like that) > > This really needs fixing quite urgently. We've seen it break ld.so/libdl (and > other things, but dynamic loading is one of the major pains as it's not > entirely obvious). > Speaking of which.. I've been having struggling a bit with vfs-make-filldir_t-and-struct-kstat-deal-in-64-bit-inode-numbers.patch nfs-represent-64-bit-fileids-as-64-bit-inode-numbers-on-32-bit-systems.patch I don't have a good understanding of what the implications are for userspace. What are the risks and what are the advantages and what the level of urgency is behind those patches. Help? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
