From: Reto Baettig <baettig@scs.ch>
To: Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: 64bit offsets for block devices ?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 06:50:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A2E5227.693121F@scs.ch> (raw)
Hi
Imagine we have a virtual disk which provides a 64bit (sparse) address
room. Unfortunately we can not use it as a block device because in a lot
of places (including buffer_head structure), we're using a long or even
an int for the block number.
Is there any way of getting a standardized way of doing I/O to a block
device which could handle 64bit addresses for the block number?
Don't you think that we will run into problems anyway because soon there
will be raid systems with a couple of Terrabytes of space to waste for
mp3's ;-)
Reto
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-06 14:50 Reto Baettig [this message]
2000-12-07 4:07 ` 64bit offsets for block devices ? Peter Samuelson
2000-12-07 6:16 ` Brian Pomerantz
2000-12-07 13:24 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-07 16:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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