Re: BIG files & file systems

[Nikita Danilov]

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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