Subject: Re: ext2fs and largefile
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/10/2005 20:35:35
hi,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:16:29AM +0200, Frank Naumann wrote:

> > Ok, then another questions: Is there a simple way to clear the large_file 
> > bit in the filesystem without a disk editor and fiddling out the right 
> > bit?
> 
> I don't think so. The bit has been set because there is a large file on
> the filsystem, now you have to deal with it.
> It could be cleared if all large files have been deleted, but for this
> the system would have to scan the whole tree ...

fsck_ext2fs could do this, I guess - isn't ext2fs ufs-alike enough to
have one? (Sorry, never bothered.)

Regards,
	-is
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