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Date:      Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:53:30 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nat Lanza <nlanza@premodern.org>
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:  <74570.1126162410@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:59:10 EDT." <431F8CDE.9070801@premodern.org> 

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In message <431F8CDE.9070801@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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