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A kernel change breaks GlusterFS

A kernel change breaks GlusterFS

Posted Mar 27, 2013 23:32 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: A kernel change breaks GlusterFS by jengelh
Parent article: A kernel change breaks GlusterFS

I was wondering that myself. What singles ext4 out for breakage? Hoping someone knows.

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A kernel change breaks GlusterFS

Posted Mar 27, 2013 23:43 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Ha, I read the articles in the wrong order. Last paragraph of the companion article: https://lwn.net/Articles/544520/

Sounds like XFS also uses 32 bit cookies but uses some additional memory to ensure it doesn't suffer the collision problem.

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