Re: What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS clientgit tree...

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 02:52:38 EST


On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:41:16 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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