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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: John R Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Theodore \"Y.\" Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666
Date: 14 Mar 2001 10:38:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103140938.KAA12099@microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103140558.f2E5w8P06685@webber.adilger.int>

Le 13 Mar 2001 22:58:08 -0700, Andreas Dilger a écrit :
> Luckily, after the symlink is created it ignores the size, and only uses
> the i_blocks count to determine if the symlink is stored in the inode
> itself or in another block (the fast symlink will be NUL terminated).
> It could well have been corruption from a long time ago, and only with
> 2.4.x and LFS you have noticed it.

BTW, if I hand-make an ext2 fs with tiny files stored directly in the
inode, will it work ? Silly question ?

Xav


      reply	other threads:[~2001-03-14  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-13  6:35 ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666 John R Lenton
2001-03-13 21:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14  5:22   ` John R Lenton
2001-03-14  5:58     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14  9:38       ` Xavier Bestel [this message]

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