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.