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Date:      Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:48:23 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6 
Message-ID:  <35672.1125665303@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:39:06 %2B1000." <20050902205456.S2885@delplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20050902205456.S2885@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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