From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 64bit (disk >16TB) question
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:19:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080715171902.GC8185@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prpf9j6t.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:00:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The get_size() function (actual name is a bit longer) does use a blk_t
> * to store the disks size and returns EFBIG if the disk exceeds 2^32
> blocks. So now you have three choices:
>
> 1) break abi: get_size(blk64_t *size)
> 2) extend abi: get_size64(blk64_t *size);
> 3) versioned symbols: get_size_old(blk_t *size) + get_size_new(blk64_t
> *size) and versioned to use the right one.
... and I'm chosing choice (2a):
get_size2(blk64_t *size);
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 19:50 ext4 64bit (disk >16TB) question Goswin von Brederlow
2008-07-14 23:46 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 5:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2008-07-15 12:36 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-15 17:00 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2008-07-15 17:19 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-07-15 13:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-15 14:01 ` Bernd Schubert
2008-07-15 14:08 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-15 16:13 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2008-07-15 18:27 ` Jose R. Santos
2008-07-15 20:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-07-15 20:15 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-07-15 21:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2008-07-15 21:20 ` Jose R. Santos
2008-07-16 10:10 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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