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Re: Large filesystems


From: Niels Möller
Subject: Re: Large filesystems
Date: 20 Feb 2002 21:19:23 +0100
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Jon Arney <jarney1@cox.net> writes:

> When I do an 'ls -la /src/*' I see a listing of some of the
> files there, but the list is interrupted by something like
> 'ls: Computer bought the farm' on certain files.  Upon inspection,
> the files which seem to be more likely to show this behavior are
> ones with 'large' inode numbers.

Odd. I don't really know, my guess is that the code you run includes a
half-way-done solution for the old ~1GB limit (the problem, as I
understood it, is/was that the ext2 mmaps the entire partition at
startup, and then ext2 fail *immediately* at startup if the partition
is too large).

/Niels



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