Oh sorry, I forgot to set the correct subject line in my stg command line :( On 08/08/2011 05:37 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote:
With the ext3/ext4 directory index implementation hashes are used to specify offsets for llseek(). For compatibility with NFSv2 and 32-bit user space on 64-bit systems (kernel space) ext3/ext4 currently only return 32-bit hashes and therefore the probability of hash collisions for larger directories is rather high. As recently reported on the NFS mailing list that theoretical problem also happens on real systems: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/40863 The following series adds two new f_mode flags to tell ext4 to use 32-bit or 64-bit hash values for llseek() calls. These flags can then used by network file systems, such as NFS, to request 32-bit or 64-bit offsets (hashes). Version 2: - use f_mode instead of O_* flags and also in a separate patch - introduce EXT4_HTREE_EOF_32BIT and EXT4_HTREE_EOF_64BIT - fix SEEK_END in ext4_dir_llseek() - set f_mode flags in NFS code as early as possible and introduce a new NFSD_MAY_64BIT_COOKIE flag for that -- Bernd Schubert Fraunhofer ITWM -- 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
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