Hi folks,
We've got some large XFS volumes that should probably be using the inode64
mount option, but aren't yet. Before I go making irrevocable changes, I wanted
to run my testing procedure by you to make sure I've actually tested what I
think I tested. These volumes will be shared via NFS, which is not your
problem but seems to be a troublemaker.
I created a blank 1GB disk image, created an XFS filesystem on that image, and
mounted it on a loopback device using the ino64 flag.
I wrote a bunch of data to the filesystem (lots of small files), approximately
600MB.
At this point, I think I have a filesystem in which inodes use 64-bit
addresses, even if the actual address value would fit in 32 bits. I would
expect any program that can't handle 64-bit addresses to barf when trying to
access any data on the filesystem.
I then unmounted the filesystem and re-mounted it using the inode64 flag, just
like it would be mounted in production.
I then verified that the programs I cared about (mostly NFS clients) could read
all of the data I had written. I also made sure they could write to the
filesystem.
Since I haven't seen any read/write failures at this point, I feel I'm ready to
sign off that we're ready to start using the inode64 flag. Did I properly
create files using 64-bit inodes? Did I read from the filesystem in such a way
that I would know if my readers were unable to handle 64-bit inodes? Is there
anything I should test that I haven't?
Thanks for all your hard work on this most useful project!
Peter
ps: not sure it makes a difference, this is on Centos 5.3 (2.6.18-128.el5), so
I'm not entirely certain which XFS bugs/features have been folded in by the
maintainers...
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