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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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