On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 15:39:23 -0400,
aragonx(a)dcsnow.com wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:50:45 -0700,
> John Wendel <john.wendel(a)metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
>>
>> Your cow-orker is (mostly) wrong! These failures are a shell
>> limitation, and have nothing to do with the filesystem itself.
>
> It's actually an OS limitation and a patch to fix it has been accepted for
> 2.6.23. So look for a change in the not too distant future.
Can you tell me who the submitter is or what is the best way of finding
that patch?
This article has info on what the new limitations are:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/5/218
I heard that the patch is fairly large, so backpatching it might be some
work, but the article above I think refers to a message from the person
who submitted the patch, which I think will let you search for the patch
if you want to try that.