Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758823AbXJDGwg (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:52:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754281AbXJDGwN (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:52:13 -0400 Received: from gateway.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.16]:38592 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753387AbXJDGwK (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:52:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:52:06 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS client git tree... Message-ID: <20071004085206.0a8e37b5@poseidon.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <1191454876.6726.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <1191454876.6726.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1126 Lines: 29 On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:41:16 -0400 Trond Myklebust wrote: > > We also have the 64-bit inode support from RedHat/Peter Staubach. > As has been pointed[1] out[2], this will cause regressions for non-LFS applications (of which there are still lots and lots). This change should be in feature-removal (the "feature" being removed is legacy support for non-LFS applications using NFS servers that make full use of the protocol) and preferably accompanied with appropriate user space changes (e.g. compatibility option in glibc). [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241348 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=118701088726477&w=2 Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org - 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/