Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:09:23 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC 11/32] xfs: convert to struct inode_time | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote: > Filesystems place all sorts of userspace visible limits on storage - > ever tried to create a file >16TB on ext4? The on-disk format > doesn't support it, so it returns an out of range error (E2BIG, I > think) if you try. XFS, OTOH, handles this just fine and so it > continues to work. It's exactly the same with timestamps - there's a > physical limit to what can sanely be stored in any given filesystem > and it's an *error condition* to go beyond that limit....
This comparison doesn't fly. File sizes do not depend on the current time (except for the increase of megapixels in your new camera ;-). Writing a 15 GiB file to ext4 is not something that magically stops working tomorrow.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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