On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:30:10 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:50 EDT, Trond Myklebust said: > > > How about a boot/module parameter to turn it on or off? > > > > I don't see any point in having a sysctl for something like this: either > > you have legacy applications or you don't. It is not something that you > > switch off as you go off to lunch. > > How does Joe Sysadmin tell if he has an affected legacy app or not? > > (The obvious "try it and see what breaks" is a non-starter for many places, > because you too easily end up in a loop of "enable it, find 4-5 show stoppers, > turn it off, fix them, lather rinse repease". Been there, done that, got > the tshirt - a project I got dragged into involves a large storage array that > appears to insist on exporting 64-bit stuff, and a large farm of clients that > are very 64-bit unclean....) >
Note that "try it and see what breaks" isn't reliable either. If glibc gets back a 64 bit inode number that just happens to fit in the 32-bit field, then everything will work. You don't actually get an EOVERFLOW until st_ino overflows the field, and that may not happen often enough for testing this way to detect it... -- Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
