Re: BIG files & file systems

Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Fri, 02 Aug 2002 21:01:27 +0400


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

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