Re: VFS 64-bit clean

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:39:22 +0100

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> And - we need files >4G on ext2 *now*. Mj's smugfs is solution for us,
> but other people probably would not like it, and it is _hack_.

I think it is great. It allows people to work on making the VFS layers
64 bit transparent, without having to worry about also fixing ext2.
smugfs is so simple it could be even used to teach Linux VFS courses.
Good job!

Martin

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