Subject: Re: Irix NFS servers, again :-)
From: Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog1.demon.co.uk>
To: Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:54, Steve Lord wrote:

> 
> Part of the fix for these issues with Irix NFS was version 2
> directories in XFS, this made directory offsets in XFS into
> real offsets rather than 64 bit hash values.
> 
> If your filesystem is old enough, it will have version 1
> directories - and the only conversion process is to do
> a dump/mkfs/restore.
> 
> xfs_growfs -n /mntpnt will report the directory version
> as naming=1 or naming=2 if I recall correctly.
> 
> Steve

Thanks, that explains it. The filesystem in question
indeed has naming=1. Now I just have to work out whether it is
worth the effort of conversion or whether I can live with a
kludged linux client (glibc or kernel).
Thanks to all who replied...


Peter

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