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SubjectRe: BIG files & file systems
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.

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