Re: On RAID, inode size, stripe size (was: Playing around with NFS+XFS)

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:36:24AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> This is not a raid5 thing, it is a filesystem size issue, once you get
> above 1 Tbyte in filesystem size then xfs inode numbers (which are really
> a disk address) can take more than 32 bits. Since lots of linux code,
> including NFS, does not cope with this, we need to change things in xfs

Since 2.4.5 or so mainstream 2.4 has the fh_to_dentry/dentry_to_fh super
block interfaces. They are currently only used by reiserfs to handle
their equivalent of 64bit inodes; but XFS could use them too to at least
avoid problems with NFS for the big file systems.

-Andi