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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>, Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	"Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 21:01:27 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4ABAE7.6000709@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: shslm7pclrx.fsf@charged.uio.no

Trond Myklebust wrote:

>     > 4 billion files is not enough to store the government's XML
>     > databases in.
>
>That's more of a glibc-specific bug. Most other libc implementations
>appear to be quite capable of providing a userspace 'readdir()' which
>doesn't ever use the lseek() syscall.
>
Interesting.  Thanks for the info.

-- 
Hans




  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-02 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-31 19:16 BIG files & file systems Peter J. Braam
2002-07-31 19:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:04   ` Matti Aarnio
2002-07-31 20:12     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-02 17:26     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:14       ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-03  3:26         ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06  5:19           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06  7:24             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06  7:52               ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06  9:28             ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-05 13:04         ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-05 13:42           ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-05 13:56             ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 14:21               ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 17:31                 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06  0:16             ` jw schultz
2002-08-06  9:48               ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-31 21:07 ` Jan Harkes
2002-07-31 21:13   ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01  3:51     ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-01 12:01       ` Mark Mielke
2002-08-02  0:09       ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-02 12:17         ` Chris Mason
2002-08-02 12:33           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-08-02 13:56         ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-02 14:06           ` Steve Lord
2002-08-02 15:10             ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 15:39               ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 17:01                 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2002-08-02 17:25                   ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 17:47                     ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 18:10                       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:31                         ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 18:48                           ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:59                             ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-01 12:01 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 20:33 ` Andrew Morton

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