Re: [RFC 11/32] xfs: convert to struct inode_time

Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-06-02T07:09:28Z

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> Filesystems place all sorts of userspace visible limits on storage -
> ever tried to create a file >16TB on ext4? The on-disk format
> doesn't support it, so it returns an out of range error (E2BIG, I
> think) if you try. XFS, OTOH, handles this just fine and so it
> continues to work. It's exactly the same with timestamps - there's a
> physical limit to what can sanely be stored in any given filesystem
> and it's an *error condition* to go beyond that limit....

This comparison doesn't fly.
File sizes do not depend on the current time (except for the increase of
megapixels in your new camera ;-).
Writing a 15 GiB file to ext4 is not something that magically stops working
tomorrow.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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