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Date:      Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:42:53 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6 
Message-ID:  <20050904154109.I53303@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <44924.1125814452@phk.freebsd.dk>
References:  <44924.1125814452@phk.freebsd.dk>

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Hello!

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> Making the hashes be 64bit is pointless since no filesystems will
>>> have that many inodes and it still doesn't solve the problem properly.
>>
>> Never? :-)
>
> Never.

  Never say "never" ;)

> Even on very fast storage media, fsck would take for ever and you
> wouldn't be able to run it in parallel.

  It will be a shame if e.g. some Linux's fs or NTFS will support > 4 Gfiles
and we will be unable to handle it just because of architectural limitations!


Sincerely, Dmitry
-- 
Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE



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