Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:58:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

    Ext2 handles large files almost properly. (properly on 2.2 +
    patches) NFSv3 handles large files but might be missing the
    O_LARGEFILE check.  I believe reiserfs went to at least 4Gig.

reiserfs 3.6.x under 2.4.x should go much higher unless i am reading
something wrong

<pause>

yup, it does.

as for NFS, I'm not sure how to pass O_LARGEFILE via the protocol and
since NFS isn't really POSIX like anyhow decided we might as well
just ingore it and have all sys_open calls for NFS look like
O_LARGEFILE was specified

move this check and also write/seek check into the VFS would make
sense; right now you can 

  f = open("blah",O_RDWR & ~O_LARGEFILE);
  lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
  lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
  lseek(f,1024*1024*1024,SEEK_CUR);
  write(f,"alan's beard",12);
  close(f);

and create a file you cannot open again with the same application

  --cw