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Subject: Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: John R Lenton <john@grulic.org.ar>,
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Le 13 Mar 2001 22:58:08 -0700, Andreas Dilger a ?crit :
> Luckily, after the symlink is created it ignores the size, and only uses
> the i_blocks count to determine if the symlink is stored in the inode
> itself or in another block (the fast symlink will be NUL terminated).
> It could well have been corruption from a long time ago, and only with
> 2.4.x and LFS you have noticed it.

BTW, if I hand-make an ext2 fs with tiny files stored directly in the
inode, will it work ? Silly question ?

Xav

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