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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-10-09 12:01:04 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-10-09 17:20:52 -0400
commitf43bf0bebed7c33b698a8a25f95812f9e87c3843 (patch)
tree20c527153cde564ca3517cf6f214fa32727542bb /Documentation
parent2a3f5fd45938bd86ce8faf4cb26be4f7e9ae2941 (diff)
NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
This boot parameter will allow legacy 32-bit applications which call stat() to continue to function even if the NFSv3/v4 server uses 64-bit inode numbers. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4d175c751246..83e21045114e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1073,6 +1073,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
1073 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 1073 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
1074 entries. 1074 entries.
1075 1075
1076 nfs.enable_ino64=
1077 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
1078 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
1079 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
1080 of returning the full 64-bit number.
1081 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
1082
1076 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels 1083 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86-32] Debugging features for SMP kernels
1077 1084
1078 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 1085 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths