[Gluster-users] Samba > NFS > Gluster leads to runaway lock problem after many stable months

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:44:30AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> See:
> 
> http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/639945-xfs-inode64-nfs.html
> 
> Given that my XFS Gluster NFS mount does not have inode64 set (although it's
> only 500G, not the 2T barrier beyond which that's evidently strictly
> required), and the likelihood that that led to yesterday's problem, what's
> the course to fix this? 

I very much doubt that was the problem.

The whole reason that inode64 is not the default is so that inode numbers
are kept in the range less than 2^32, precisely so that ancient NFS clients
can deal with them.