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Date:      Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:14:12 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6 
Message-ID:  <44924.1125814452@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:43:31 %2B1000." <20050904090740.L2820@epsplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20050904090740.L2820@epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>> Making the hashes be 64bit is pointless since no filesystems will
>> have that many inodes and it still doesn't solve the problem properly.
>
>Never? :-)

Never.

Even on very fast storage media, fsck would take for ever and you
wouldn't be able to run it in parallel.

Poul-Henning

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