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.
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Dave Chinner
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