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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <431F8CDE.9070801 at premodern.org>, Nat Lanza writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Even on very fast storage media, fsck would take for ever and you
>> wouldn't be able to run it in parallel.
>
>This is not a bullet-proof assumption -- there are certainly distributed 
>filesystems out there which implement parallel fsck already, and I 
>expect the number of them to only increase with time.
>
>It's not realistic to implement >4G files on a local-disk filesystem 
>anytime soon, but there are already users who expect to be able to do so 
>on distributed / clustered systems.

Just like time_t, the cost of going to 64bit inode_t is still too high
for use to make the switch.

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