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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why Partition a Hard Disk
Message-ID: <8435@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Sep 88 03:48:01 GMT
References: <4360004@wdl1.UUCP> <1988Aug31.174144.1694@utzoo.uucp> <8424@smoke.ARPA> <2916@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2916@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>I see another problem.  Presumably, the change over to a long inode was
>accompanied by a change from a V7-type file sytem to a different file system
>where directory entries support the long inodes (whether this be BSD 4.3 or
>some new kluge).

Not necessarily; that's a separate issue.  Guy noted that remote
filesystems could use inumbers > 2^16 even if the local filesystems
didn't.  As to directory scanning breaking, it would have to have
broken on the remote directories anyway.  I would hope that by now
everyone has acquired the POSIX-style directory access library and
is using it.