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On Saturday, June 23, 2012 05:07:21 PM Fernando Andrés Muñoz Bravo wrote:
> Yes, I have intalled them... but, as  Akemi Yagi says, XFS is disabled by
> default on 32 Bits.
> 
> Now, according to this:
> 
> " *Yes, you can build your own 32-bit kernel with xfs enabled.  However,
> use xfs on 32-bit systems with caution because xfs has problems with
> 4K stack size (x86_64 uses 8k stacks). This is the main reason why
> upstream does not support it. *"
> 
> It means, for instance, if my hard disk is external (USB 3.0) its lifetime
> is warning?

XFS can break without warning on 32-bit.  I've experienced it; you really need 64-bit for XFS support to be reliable.

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