kern/142597: [ext2fs] ext2fs does not work on filesystems with really big directories

[Aditya Sarawgi]

The following reply was made to PR kern/142597; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, vermaden at interia.pl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/142597: [ext2fs] ext2fs does not work on filesystems with
 really big directories
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:54 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:43:26PM +0000, linimon at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > Old Synopsis: ext2fs does not work on filesystems with really big directories
 > New Synopsis: [ext2fs] ext2fs does not work on filesystems with really big directories
 > 
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 > Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
 > Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 10 21:43:16 UTC 2010
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 > Over to maintainer(s).
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 Hi,
 
 Can you give a rough estimate of the number of files you have in the 
 directory, and if possible at what value is this breaking. The current 
 code supports large_file and I don't think dir_index maybe causing this, 
 the only thing dir_index would do is make the lookup faster. The other 
 thing I would like to know is that when you do ls big_dir do you get the 
 prompt back or ls keeps waiting.
 
 
 Thanks
 Aditya Sarawgi