regarding the inode64 mount option

[Felix Blyakher]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:

> Hi Eric + Christoph!
>> http://sandeen.net/wordpress/?p=9
> This is a scary list indeed! Does this apply only to Fedora on i686  
> or also to x86_64?
>
> In general, does the inode64 option make sense at all on a partition  
> that is <1TB in size?

inode64 doesn't do anything on a partition smaller than 1TB.

>> Actually they should still be accessible, we just won't create new
>> inodes not addressable by 32bit inode numbers.
> Well, in my tests it didn't work.

Indeed. (I thought I already replied stating this, but found my
mail in Drafts folder).

What you're seeing is expected result, which was observed in our
environment as well.

[snip]

> The filesystem is consistent - xfs_check (3.0.1) doesn't report any  
> problems.

Right, filesystem is still consistent.
And xfs_check/xfs_repair has no idea that filesystem may be mounted
without the inode64.

Felix