Coda File System

Re: crash in rvmlib_free (not necessarily) during repair

From: Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:39:02 -0400
Brett Lymn <blymn_at_internode.on.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:01:00AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>> > Just about everything in Coda is based on 32-bit integers even when you
>> > are running on a 64-bit systems, so 64-bits really just gives you more
>> > addressible memory.
>> 
>> So have you run across i386 and sparc64 servers, or something like that,
>> and seen the test suite :-) pass?   I can't quite tell if you mean
>> 'should work' vs 'has been tested and is known to work'.
>
> I have run a 64 bit server and 32 bit client in the past and it worked
> fine for me.

That's good to know, and shows the venus/vice interface is endian-ok.
It sounds like then you haven't run 32/64 or LE/BE servers in the same
replication group, though, which exercises different data structures.

Received on 2013-07-10 08:58:14