On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:16:03 -0400 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > That would be perfect. It can even be in non-legacy mode by default, > > > just as long as you can go back to the old behaviour when/if you run > > > into a non-LFS application. > > > > > > > Wouldn't a mount option be better? > > I suppose that might be OK if you know that the 32-bit legacy > applications will only touch one or two servers, but that sounds like a > niche thing. > > On the downside, forcing all those people who have portable 64-bit aware > applications to upgrade their version of mount just in order to have > stat64() work correctly seems unnecessarily complicated. I'd prefer not > to have to do that unless someone comes up with a good reason why we > must. Confused. You don't need to modify mount(8) when adding a new mount option? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
