inode64 and Firefox

aurfalien aurfalien at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 09:08:03 CDT 2013


On Jul 9, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> On 7/9/13 8:37 AM, aurfalien wrote:
>> Before I dig deeper, wondering if any one has issues running Firefox v22 from an XFS file system mounted using inode64 option?
> 
> I've not tried it, but first question - 32-bit or 64-bit firefox?

Its 32 bit FF.  Thunderbird also has issues.  Too bad :(

Stuck in the stone age.  Got a 24TB fs functioning as a home dir for ~100 pplz that I would like to modernize.

> However, this isn't encouraging:
> 
> $ file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
> /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
> 
> $ ./summarise_stat.pl /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
>      1 100.0% use 32-bit stat() family interfaces only
> 
> sooo if my perl script is to be believed, it may be problematic, depending on how serious a stat() failure is.
> 
> -Eric

Thanks for the feedback.

- aurf



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