64-bit inodes and back again

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 09/27/2011 08:10 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this was fixed in 2.6.37. There's nothing wrong with
> the filesystem, just the kernel code had an arbitrary restriction on
> where inodes code be read from in 32-bit inode mode. That was
> removed in commit d276734 ("xfs: fix bogus m_maxagi check in
> xfs_iget").

OK, great. I'll be moving the system to kernel 3.0 soon.

> xfs_reno is a tool designed to move all 64 bit inodes back into the
> 32 bit inode space again.
>
> http://xfs.org/index.php/Unfinished_work#The_xfs_reno_tool

I'll give this a shot first.

Thanks for the pointers.