linux-ext4 - Re: Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:11:14 +0100
From:	Samuel Thibault <sthibault@...ian.org>
To:	738758@...s.debian.org,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: optimize Hurd tests when
 reading/writing inodes

Theodore Ts'o, le Fri 21 Mar 2014 12:48:53 -0400, a écrit :
> Also, add a sanity check to make sure the 64-bit feature is not set
> for Hurd file systems, since i_file_acl_high conflicts with a
> Hurd-specific field. This is not a big deal, since Hurd doesn't
> support file systems larger than 1GB[1] anyway.

Err, it does. We regularly use volumes with dozens of GiB.

> [1] http://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-faq/FAQ.en.html#q2-6

That faq is very largely outdated.  See the official faq on 

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html

Samuel
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