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Re: [PATCH][ALPHA 3] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G)
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: [PATCH][ALPHA 3] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G) |
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:56:31 +0200 |
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Hi,
only commenting on one thing for now.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:51:37PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> e2fsprogs uses Unix API to work with partitions/images. Unfortunately,
> we have a limit of 2G for files, so I've made an ugly patch for
> e2fsprogs that uses libstore in e2fsck as "Hurd IO manager". Probably
> when the patch is polished, I'll send it upstream.
Please don't, that's just wrong. We will get large file support, and in
fact a lot of groundwork for this has been done already in glibc. The only
main problem left is io_map.
Thanks,
Marcus
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