On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:50:45 -0700, John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.