On 11/22/2010 01:37 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:38:49AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> From: Samuel Kvasnica <samuel.kvasnica@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> We now support mounting and using filesystems with 64-bit inodes even >> when not mounted with the inode64 option (which now only controls if >> we allocate new inodes in that space or not). Make sure we always >> use large NFS file handles when exporting a filesystem that may contain >> 64-bit inodes. Note that this only affects newly generated file handles, >> any outstanding 32-bit file handle is still accepted. >> >> [hch: the comment and commit log are mine, the rest is from a patch >> snipplet from Samuel] >> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Won't this mean that people exporting non-root directories suddenly > have those exports stop working on a kernel upgrade due to changing > the handle format? > > Cheers, > > Dave. Hello Dave, nothing is really changing, it is a bugfix. NFS was trying to use 32bit inodes which was incorrect (i.e. broken at client) for xfs filesystem containing 64bit inodes in one special case. This is fixed now. regards, Sam _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
