On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:46:10AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:50:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > so is 32 bit userspace xfsutils kosher with a 64 bit xfs kernel? or
> > are there silly ioctl() issues?
>
> See debian bug 257265. Looks like silly ioctl issues were reported
> for sparc64 (64bit kernel, 32bit userspace) about a year ago and a
> fix was put into the 2.6.8-1 kernel package.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=257265
>
> If the debian AMD64 kernel is not built from this package (or it's
> descendent) you'll need to check to see if this mod is in that
> kernel.`
That's just for growfs. We have compatibility shims for some ioctls,
but the complicated ones (all the handle stuff, bulkstat) doesn't work
and can't be easily made to work.
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