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Subject:
why does 32-bit SL6 have a loadable module for 64-bit btrfs?
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"Robert P. J. Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert P. J. Day
Date:
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:02:04 -0400
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  still teaching my class on RH sys admin using SL6 and, spur of the
moment, decided to show students how to format and mount a btrfs
filesystem, only to discover that the 32-bit version of SL6 on their
student systems couldn't find the btrfs-progs package, because (of
course) btrfs is a 64-bit filesystem.

  but what surprised me was that their 32-bit installs *did* have the
loadable module btrfs.ko, which i find odd.  what's the point of a
loadable module for btrfs when the system has no corresponding
userspace utilities?

rday

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