Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262367AbVCCVpG (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:45:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262421AbVCCVnh (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:43:37 -0500 Received: from colin2.muc.de ([193.149.48.15]:27141 "HELO colin2.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262586AbVCCVcX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:32:23 -0500 Date: 3 Mar 2005 22:32:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:32:15 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Bernd Schubert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems Message-ID: <20050303213215.GA96478@muc.de> References: <200502282154.08009.bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de> <1109782387.9667.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20050303091908.GC5215@muc.de> <200503032216.31859.bernd-schubert@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503032216.31859.bernd-schubert@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 15 > So what do you actually suggest? On the one hand you say even 32bit userspace > supports 64bit inodes, if it wants. On the other hand you say the truncation > needs to be done on file system level. > To my mind this is contradicting, the first statement suggests to do the > truncation in userspace, the second says it can only be done in the kernel? We have to live with glibc not supporting this, so it would be probably best to always do the truncation in NFS. -Andi - 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/