On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:33:15 -0800 (PST) 
 Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:

 > Then we have to keep two copies of the files options LIFFS has changed,
 > and make sure that changes in one go into the other.
 > 
 > That's a mess.

Yah, really... especially considering that the changes I had to make to
the kernel to deal with large inodes were ... amazingly minor.  It's,
like, only a few checks in a few places, and no more intrusive than
the both-endian support.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>