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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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