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

Dmitry Pryanishnikov dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua
Sun Sep 4 05:43:00 PDT 2005


Hello!

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 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.

  Never say "never" ;)

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

  It will be a shame if e.g. some Linux's fs or NTFS will support > 4 Gfiles
and we will be unable to handle it just because of architectural limitations!


Sincerely, Dmitry
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Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
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