diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index 32009bc..586e1e8 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -797,6 +797,19 @@ sub udp_rx_amdtardata {
 }
 
 our ($machine,$SYS_lchown,$SYS_mknod,$lmtime_sub);
+our ($SYS_utimensat,$AT_FDCWD,$UTIME_OMIT,$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
+
+sub lmtime_unsupported {
+	my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
+	warn "$path: don't known how to change symlink mtime on target architecture\n";
+}
+sub lmtime_utimensat {
+	my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
+	my $tsa=pack 'qqqq',0,$UTIME_OMIT,$mtime,0;
+	syscall($SYS_utimensat,$AT_FDCWD,$path,$tsa,$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)==0 or return warn "$path: failed to lmtime: $!\n";
+}
+$lmtime_sub=\&lmtime_unsupported;
+
 chomp($machine=`uname -m`);
 if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 	$SYS_lchown=198;		# __NR_lchown32  in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -804,6 +817,12 @@ if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 } elsif ($machine eq 'x86_64') {
 	$SYS_lchown=94;			# __NR_lchown in /usr/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
 	$SYS_mknod=133;			# __NR_mknod
+
+	$SYS_utimensat=280;			# /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+	$AT_FDCWD=-100;			# /usr/include/fcntl.h
+	$UTIME_OMIT=(1<<30)-2;		# /usr/include/bits/stat.h
+	$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW=0x100;		# /usr/include/fcntl.h
+	$lmtime_sub=\&lmtime_utimensat;
 } elsif ($machine eq 'alpha') {
 	$SYS_lchown=208;		# SYS_lchown in /usr/include/syscall.h
 	$SYS_mknod=14;			# SYS_mknod
@@ -814,23 +833,6 @@ if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 	warn "unknown machine type $machine: symlink ownership can't be set.\n";
 	warn "unknown machine type $machine: named pipes,character and block devices can't be created\n";
 }
-if ($machine eq 'x86_64') {
-	our $SYS_utimensat=280;			# /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h
-	our $AT_FDCWD=-100;			# /usr/include/fcntl.h
-	our $UTIME_OMIT=(1<<30)-2;		# /usr/include/bits/stat.h
-	our $AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW=0x100;		# /usr/include/fcntl.h
-
-	$lmtime_sub=sub {
-		my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
-		my $tsa=pack 'qqqq',0,$UTIME_OMIT,$mtime,0;
-		syscall($SYS_utimensat,$AT_FDCWD,$path,$tsa,$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)==0 or return warn "$path: failed to lmtime: $!\n";
-	}
-} else {
-	$lmtime_sub=sub {
-		my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
-		warn "$path: don't known how to change symlink mtime on target architecture\n";
-	}
-}
 
 sub lchown {
 	my ($uid,$gid,$path)=@_;