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Subject: Re: kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Even on very fast storage media, fsck would take for ever and you
> wouldn't be able to run it in parallel.

This is not a bullet-proof assumption -- there are certainly distributed 
filesystems out there which implement parallel fsck already, and I 
expect the number of them to only increase with time.

It's not realistic to implement >4G files on a local-disk filesystem 
anytime soon, but there are already users who expect to be able to do so 
on distributed / clustered systems.


--nat