Re: Filesystem corruption bug in libdiskfs

2002-12-08 Thread M.P.Anand Babu
, | Abstract <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | In diskfs_rename_dir, filesystem corruption can result if a directory is | moved that by a user who cannot write to the parent directory. For | example: | $ sudo chown -R tla.tla /src/hurd | $ mv /src/hurd /home/tla | ext2fs.static: /libdiskfs/dir-

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The memory size must actually be limited on all architectures, because > > the interfaces are supposed to be machine independent, which requires > > the word size of the relevant parameters to be constant. > > That's insane. The interfaces on 64-bit

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-08 Thread Roland McGrath
> The memory size must actually be limited on all architectures, because > the interfaces are supposed to be machine independent, which requires > the word size of the relevant parameters to be constant. That's insane. The interfaces on 64-bit machines use 64-bit sizes. ___

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason for the limit is because the address space on IA32 architecture > is 32 bit. The memory size must actually be limited on all architectures, because the interfaces are supposed to be machine independent, which requires the word size of th

Re: pump

2002-12-08 Thread Roland McGrath
> Can we please remove pump? Kapow. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

pump

2002-12-08 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Can we please remove pump? It is so horribly broken that there is no point in having it in the tree. If anyone needs to see how the DHCP stuff was done they can always look in the Attic. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/

Filesystem corruption bug in libdiskfs

2002-12-08 Thread Abstract
Hi. In diskfs_rename_dir, filesystem corruption can result if a directory is moved that by a user who cannot write to the parent directory. For example: $ sudo chown -R tla.tla /src/hurd $ mv /src/hurd /home/tla ext2fs.static: /libdiskfs/dir-renamed.c:202: diskfs_rename_dir: Assertion `tmpnp

Re: Unionfs

2002-12-08 Thread Moritz Schulte
Wolfgang Jaehrling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/bin/ld: netfs.o(.debug_info+0x6399): unresolvable relocation > against symbol `_netfs_translator_callback1' I am not sure what this is; I don't see it here. > I noticed that lnode_ref_remove() and lnode_uninstall() recursively > call each oth

Re: Unionfs

2002-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:04:11AM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Also, I find it a bit unfortunate that a simple `ls' triggers this > > already: > > > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ settrans -ac foo unionfs .. / > > wj@hurd:~/unionfs$ ls foo/unionfs/ > > ls: foo/unionfs/foo: Too many levels of symbolic li