From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jim Dennis <jimd@starshine.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA support?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 03:33:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141374797.3042.95.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060302214929.GA16523@starshine.org>
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:49 -0800, Jim Dennis wrote:
>
> I ask primarily because of the interplay between 64-bit systems and
> things like /var/log/lastlog (which appears as a 1.2TiB file due to
> the nfsnobody UID of 4294967294).
>
> (I'm realize that adding support for these additional seek() flags
> wouldn't solve the problem ... archiving tools would still have to
> implement it. And I can also hear the argument that Red Hat and other
> distributions should re-implement lastlog handling to use a more modern
> and efficient hashing/index format and perhaps that they should set
> nfsnobody to "-1" ...
So the presence of very high UIDs causes lastlog to be huge? That just
sounds like a RedHat bug.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-03 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 21:49 SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA support? Jim Dennis
2006-03-03 8:33 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-03 9:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-05 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05 4:18 ` Nicholas Miell
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2006-03-03 17:04 Jim Dennis
2006-03-03 17:56 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-03 22:03 ` Nicholas Miell
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