32bit vs 64bit in the filesystem structures

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Apr 22 09:24:23 UTC 2010


On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
George R Goffe <grgoffe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I'm trying to find out if there are any dependencies within the specific filesystem structures that are specific to 32bit and 64bit. 
> 
> As far as I know you can mount a filesystem created on an x86_64 system on a x86 machine without any problems but this could just be that I have not been bitten yet and I'd rather avoid that if possible.

That is certainly the intention.

Alan


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