Large-File-Summit kernel aspects completed, any testers ?

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:14:03 +0200 (EET)

Well, the claim 'completed' is not entirely true.
It is missing 5 or 11 syscall numbers (platform depending) by which
applications could reach the new interfaces already coded in to support
the really LARGE files. (And thus no libc support exists yet, I must
talk with Drepper et.al.)

A thing I am interested at which everybody can help is:

Does having this new modified page cache/LFS stuff in break
anything which is now running just fine with standard kernel ?

Some additional questions I have about things in various filesystems
which Linux has integrated. I did modify something so fundamental
that ALL filesystems got affected. Experts on filesystems other than
EXT2 should have a carefull look at those changes. (EXT2 seems to work,
but 24h of moderate use isn't yet a severe stress test.. UFS contained
several things which I suspect were errors, but I can't be sure..)

The diff based on linux-2.1.132-pre-4 can be found at directory:

ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/

Once 2.1.132 arrives, I will make a diff against it, too.

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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