Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow inode64 mount option on 32 bit systems

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:34:40PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we've stopped using the Linux inode cache when can trivally
> support the inode64 mount option on 32bit architectures.  As far as the
> kernel and most userspace is concerned this works perfectly, but
> applications still using really old stat and readdir interfaces will get
> an EOVERFLOW error when hitting an inode number not fitting into 32
> bits (that problem of course also exists when using these applications
> on a 64bit kernel).
> 
> Note that because inode64 is simply a mount option we can currently
> mount a filesystem having > 32 bit inode numbers and cause a variety of
> problems, all this is solved but this patch which enables XFS_BIG_INUMS,
> even when inode64 is not used.

Looks ok.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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