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Re: glibc 2.1.96
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > Comment: If you can, you should really update ino_t to 64 bits; the 2.5
> > kernel will probably need a 64-bit ino_t due to NFS v3/v4, XFS, and other
> > filesystems with large inode numbers.
>
> I already answered this. ino64_t is a 64 bit type. Ino_t will never
> change. People will have to get used to compile with LFS.
>
I believe I wrote this back as well: this will affect *ALL* applications,
even those that don't need large file support. This change really needs
to happen, or any non-LFS application is DANGEROUS AND UNUSABLE.
-hpa
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