>> From: Chris G. Demetriou
>
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:34:25 +0200 (EET) 
>>  Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:
>> 
>>  > # fsck /dev/ccd0d
>>  > ** /dev/rccd0d
>>  > cannot alloc 7948802 bytes for lncntp
>>  > 
>>  > (This is a nice 16 GB ccd disk... :-)
>> 
>> Eek!  Well, you're hitting the default rlimits.  Try unlimiting the
>> data size ...
>
>This is the most convincing argument i've heard thus far for the fact
>that the i386 default limits are too low...  If you can't even fsck a
>'reasonable size' disk/partition with the default limits, there's a
>problem.

why don't we just make fsck check and adjust these limits for itself?
can't we "assume" that it knows what it's doing?  granted, perhaps
they are a little low for some things, but since anything can modify
them if need be, why are shells the only things that do (more or less)?

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