Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:45:18 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: ext2fs and big files |
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According to Stephen C. Tweedie: > Chip writes: > > It would also be a Very Good Idea, BTW, to require that the ext2fs > > filesystem version number be incremented before files larger than 4G > > be allowed in a given filesystem. Otherwise, when that fs is mounted > > by an older kernel, Bad Thing May Happen. > > We made sure before 2.0 went out the door that ext2fs had a mechanism to > protect us from things like this. There is a set of capability bitmaps > in the ext2fs superblock which are checked by all kernels ...
Wow. That's marvelous. I tip my hat. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com> "I brought the atom bomb. I think it's a good time to use it." //MST3K
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