On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:34:49AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > So does this mean 32-bit apps that didn't need to be largefile aware in > the past because they only touched small files now need to become largefile > aware to avoid problems with ZFS if they call stat()? (Granted, they've > already had problems with stat() with out-of-range dates from NFS servers > and other places, but those aren't as common as ZFS will be.) >
Yes, unfortunately this is the case. But it will only affect filesystems with more than 3 billion files on them. There's not much that can be done about this - if you want to have more than 2^32 files, you need more than 32 bits to uniquely identify them. The lightweight ZFS filesystem model will also reduce this effect, since administrators will be encouraged to have many filesystems (i.e. one per user) instead of a single mammoth filesystem (all of /export/home). - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
