On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:12:38PM -0500, Ivan.Novick@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > My understanding from the documentation is that inode64 allows > inode numbers to be 64 bits in size rather than the default of > 32. > > Is this correct? Yes. > Will the option work fine on 32 bit X86 builds? Yes, with a few caveats - all userspace applications, libraries, etc need to use stat64() rather than stat() so that 64 bit inode numbers can be correctly exported to userspace. > The documentation also says: > "This is provided for backwards compatibility, but causes problems > for backup applications that cannot handle large inode numbers." > Is this a current issue? Any examples of backup applications that > have trouble reading a file system that uses this option? See this discussion: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2010-04/msg00111.html EMC Networker is one of the backup programs that has historically not supported 64 bit inodes. Whether that is still true or not, maybe you can find out for us. ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
