Re: BIG files & file systems

Nikita Danilov (Nikita@Namesys.COM)
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:25:07 +0400


Hans Reiser writes:
> 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.

But there still is a problem with applications (if any) calling
seekdir/telldir directly...

>
> --
> Hans
>

Nikita.

>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/