On Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > > On Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Recent enough kernel work fine with filesystems that inode64 was > > > used on even if it's not specified anymore. > > > > > > Really? Since when exactly? That would be a nice feature. If we > > can define it clearly, I could put that on the FAQ. > > Linux 2.6.35 will be the first kernel with the bugfixes for this to > work. Hihi, *rofl*. That's what developers mean by "recent enough kernel": It will be "in the next release to come". :-) > > But how does it truncate the numbers >int32 and avoid collisions? > > It doesn't. Existing inodes won't nessecarily fit into 32-bits, but > no new inodes above it will be allocated. OK, sounds simple. I wrote two new FAQ entries: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_is_the_inode64_mount_option_for.3F Could "all who know better than me" please verify if the information is correct? -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 ****** Aktuelles Radiointerview! ****** http://www.it-podcast.at/aktuelle-sendung.html // Wir haben im Moment zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://zmi.at/haus2009/
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