Subject: Re: 2.0 and >2T filesystems
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/21/2005 22:02:44
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:50:46PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > It would not surprise me, in the older code in 2.0 and even in
> > -current, if there were still some 32-bit related bugs or limits.
>
> Isn't legacy code fun? :-þ
You told that you were trying 2.0, check the changelog carefully,
especially this entry:
sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_bmap.c patch
Fix a silent truncation problem that could cause corruption with large
FFSv1 file systems.
[mycroft, ticket #1035]
I don't know what this means exactly, but I would be careful.
Pavel Cahyna