Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:03:12 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem? Message-ID: <20040218150001.A20241@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040218021247.GA28724@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040217103909.N73217@yabba.500mhz.net> <20040217100822.GA13286@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040217102121.GA13632@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040218112014.V19484@gamplex.bde.org> <20040218021247.GA28724@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:37:26AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > The feature stuff needs to be handled for writing. > > I discovered that a few minutes after posting the patch :-) I decided to > take the lazy way out for now and to return EFBIG if we would need to > upgrade the filesystem to EXT2_DYNAMIC_REV or set ..._RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE. > I think what's most important here is being able to read large files > from Linux ext2 filesystems, and I don't like the current ext2 code > enough to implement superblock updating etc. The ext2 code seems to do a little more than necessary. Anyway, we shouldn't copy it, to keep the the superblock update parts of FreeBSD's ext2fs free of the copyleft :-). Bruce
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