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Re: attr_get() limited to 3061 bytes

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: attr_get() limited to 3061 bytes
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Jan 2002 14:44:06 -0600
Cc: "ZINKEVICIUS,MATT ""(HP-Loveland,ex1)" <matt_zinkevicius@xxxxxx>, "'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 14:25, I wrote:

> Hm, perhaps this has something to do with the fact that we were reading
> memory into the attribute data when we were setting the attribute, and
> reading the data into memory when we were getting the attribute... which
> is quite backwards!

Hm, that didn't make any sense, did it!  Just trust that we had some
read/write inversion going on.  :)

And the reason this got hit at 3061 bytes is that that's the crossover
point for 2 different methods of storing attribute data.  Smaller
attributes would not hit this bug.

-Eric

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