empty symlinks, e2fsck

2002-12-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
Hi, I created an empty symlink on an ext2 filesystem while I was in GNU/Hurd. Later on that partitions was checked by e2fsck (in GNU/Linux) and when it encountered that symlink, it reported a filesystem inconsistency, which I had to repair manually. That doesn't seem so sane to me, either ext2fs

Re: empty symlinks, e2fsck

2002-12-22 Thread Roland McGrath
I'd call that a bug in e2fsck. Empty symlinks used to be creatable and work on GNU/Linux as well. It would be fine to disallow them, however. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Some ideas for GNUmach2 (oskit-mach)

2002-12-22 Thread Daniel Wagner
Joachim Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Change the OSKit version dependency in configure.in to, > at least, NEEDED_OSKIT_VERION=20010214. The changes for Yes, that's not a bad idea. > 2. When I build an optimized kernel, only IDE and one > ethernet card, e

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

2002-12-22 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My idea is to maintain a ~1GB area of "metadata control space." This > area, rather than being a one-to-one mapping of memory to backing > store (as it currently is), would lazily map (via a hash) the metadata > lazily as it is requested. (The ha