Re: Bug in minixfs

[Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com>]

Wouldn't it be a reason to have extfs2 filesystem for atari instead of
minix? Is it possible? thinkable?


On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

>> So my question: does anybody remember if the minixfs in KGMD is really
>> patched with the patch provided in /usr/src/minixfs/? If it is, there's yet
>> another bug in minixfs causing bus error...
>
>Hm, rather sad :( But it may be not a bug, but just a 'forgotten'
>limitation. When the minix.xfs was written, you could hardly find a 120 MB
>hard disk, not to mention a partition, not to mention a file. Programs
>written in 1990-1995 usually get upset on such objects, like very long
>files. E.g. the PC-GEM 3.01 (latest, 1993) normally hangs if you try to
>display a directory where a file is larger than 127 MB :)
>
>This doesn't mean however it shouldn't be fixed.
>

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