On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:03:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com> writes:
>
> > Previous 2.4.X kernels didn't require the 32bitclients option
> > on the IRIX server for some reason.
>
> That was because prior to 2.4.9 the kernel would automatically
> truncate the getdents() offsets to 32 bits. We now have true 64 bit
> offsets, and they actually get passed back to userland.
>
> glibc-2.x's 32 bit version of readdir() still assumes that
> getdents64() syscall returns some an offset (rather than a cookie) and
> that the offset fits into 32bits on ordinary directories.
> Using '32bitclients' on these older IRIX servers sort of shoehorns
> them into the glibc assumptions in the same way the 32 bit truncation
> in kernels 2.4.[0-8] did.
Hmm, the the server I'm running is IRIX 6.5.12 which isn't that old. IRIX
6.5.13 was only released a little while ago (with some specific IRIX/Linux
NFS fixes according to the changelog) so I assume that with 6.5.13 we won't
need the 32bitclients options.
Thanks for the info.
-Dave
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