Re: kern/43908

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 2,  7:35pm, arto.huusko%pp2.inet.fi@localhost (Arto Huusko) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/43908

| The following reply was made to PR kern/43908; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Arto Huusko <arto.huusko%pp2.inet.fi@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: kern/43908
| Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:32:02 +0200
| 
|  Presumably, when running 32 bit glibc on top of a really 32 bit linux
|  kernel, linux never returns inode numbers over 32 bits. So not a glibc
|  bug.
|  
|  However, unless smaller inode numbers for tmpfs are not possible, I
|  understand this a bug that is not feasible to fix in NetBSD's
|  linux32 emulation. To mitigate this:
|  
|    - document this in bugs section of compat_linux
|    - possibly warn about this in the same way as with too large
|      directory offset cookies

I don't see why we cannot deal with this in a sane way. Perhaps even
as kludgy as to have a tmpfs flag not to generate large inodes...

christos