inode64 and Firefox

[Eric Sandeen]

On 7/9/13 9:08 AM, aurfalien wrote:
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> On Jul 9, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> I've not tried it, but first question - 32-bit or 64-bit firefox?
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> Its 32 bit FF.  Thunderbird also has issues.  Too bad :(

Ok, below was for 64-bit, even!

I'd file a bug w/ them, it can't be that hard to fix.  Modern filesystems have 64 bit inodes, they should handle it!

-Eric

> Stuck in the stone age.  Got a 24TB fs functioning as a home dir for ~100 pplz that I would like to modernize.
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>> However, this isn't encouraging:
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>> $ 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
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>> $ ./summarise_stat.pl /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
>>      1 100.0% use 32-bit stat() family interfaces only
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>> sooo if my perl script is to be believed, it may be problematic, depending on how serious a stat() failure is.
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>> -Eric
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> Thanks for the feedback.
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> - aurf
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