kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 2 05:48:29 PDT 2005


In message <20050902205456.S2885 at delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>If you want to fix this, first work on the much larger problems of enlarging
>ino_t and changing the not-unused ffs file system to support more than 4G
>files.  Note that this was considered too hard to do for ffs2.

Not quite.  It was considered and we decided that it would be a waste
of perfectly good diskspace and performance.

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