Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:25:07 +0400 | Subject | Re: BIG files & file systems |
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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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