Re: Knfsd filehandles on 64-bit CPUS

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 04:02:50 -0700


Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:16:29 -0400
From: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>

Can someone confirm whether there's still a problem with knfsd
filehandles on 64-bit CPUs? Alan still lists it as a problem on his
web page, and I don't recall seeing any patches go by.

I have an idea of how to fix this (if it's still broken), but if
anyone else has ideas on this I'm open to suggestions.

The problem still exists on sparc64 because we have 64-bit ino_t

I was going to run though making a patch which used __u32 for the
filehandle ino_t's since 2.2.x Linux will never generate a filehandle
with a value larger than 32-bits can represent. So if you want to do
it, feel free as you'll probably get to it before me.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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