Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262358AbVCBQ62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:58:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262371AbVCBQxz (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:53:55 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:52695 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262378AbVCBQxU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:53:20 -0500 Subject: Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems From: Trond Myklebust To: Bernd Schubert Cc: Andi Kleen , Andreas Schwab , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200503021233.57341.bernd-schubert@web.de> References: <200502282154.08009.bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de> <20050302081858.GA7672@muc.de> <1109754818.10407.48.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <200503021233.57341.bernd-schubert@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:53:07 -0800 Message-Id: <1109782387.9667.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.333, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.67, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 23 on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 12:33 (+0100) skreiv Bernd Schubert: > > I can see no good reason for truncating inode number values on platforms > > that actually do support 64-bit inode numbers, but I can see several > > Well, at least we would have a reason ;) A 32-bit emulation mode is clearly a "platform" which does NOT support 64-bit inode numbers, however there is (currently) no way for the kernel to detect that you are running that. Any extra truncation should therefore ideally be done by the emulation layer rather than the kernel itself. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/