Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666

[Xavier Bestel]

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