Re: Re: Perfomance problem backupscript (more details and tests)

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:08:33PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

> I understand that a _new_ 32-bit operating system version is
> not bound to sizeof(ino_t)==4.
> But any _old_ instance of a 32-bit Linux which is running
> in real life will be unable to accomodate with a filesystem
> that uses 64-bit file serial numbers.

Any reasonably recent version of 32-bit Linux has sizeof(ino_t)==8.  You
have to define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE to be able to see it, but that is the
same thing you need for 'open' and 'lstat' to work with large files anyway.

Dave