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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
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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.

-- 
Hans



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