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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Sep 3 23:14:18 PDT 2005


In message <20050904090740.L2820 at epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>> Making the hashes be 64bit is pointless since no filesystems will
>> have that many inodes and it still doesn't solve the problem properly.
>
>Never? :-)

Never.

Even on very fast storage media, fsck would take for ever and you
wouldn't be able to run it in parallel.

Poul-Henning

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