64-bit inodes

Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2008 at kiwi-computer.com
Mon Aug 31 18:40:47 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:49:47PM +0700, bossic at ngs.ru wrote:
> Good time of day!
> I have a question about 64-bit inodes. Some software (for example
> glusterfs http://www.gluster.org/) don't work on operation systems this type of inodes support
> without. Will FreeBSD support 64-bit inodes? And when expect it?

UFS2 uses 64-bit block numbers and 64-bit times.  Not sure about ZFS, but I
know it supports at least 64-bit block pointers.  I'm not exactly sure what
you mean by "support 64-bit inodes".  Certainly FreeBSD supports
filesystems that use 64-bit pointers and timestamps.

-- Rick C. Petty


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