Re: [PATCH 0/2] Squashing long inodes.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thu 27 Feb 2014 21:22:54 Denis Obrezkov wrote:
> nowadays we can observe active cooperation between 64bit and 32bit systems.
> Due to this we have a compatibility problem - programs on 32bit systems
> have to operate with 64bit inodes. Most of these programs use stat to check
> out file's presence and don's use inodes themselves. Sometimes we could
> resolve this problem by means of rebuilding them with
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 flag. But many of them can't be rebuilt. So there is
> another way that is used in other products which have such a problem(e.g.
> fuse) - squashing inodes for 32bit systems.
> 
> Should it be solved? Should it be solved a different way?

for context, you should probably review this thread that happened (funny 
enough, almost exactly 1 year ago) on this list:
	https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-02/msg00575.html
-mike

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