From: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][e2fsprogs] 64-bit block number support - first part
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:13:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4716189E.7060301@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071014151211.GA6328@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> It's good to clean this up, but this presumes that blk_t is going to
> change to a 64-bit type. I'd much rather *add* a blk64_t, and keep
> blk_t at 32 bits. This patch series in a number of places makes the
> presumption that blk_t will change size --- in particular when it
> creates new interfaces that returns 64-bits through a blk_t. Please
> don't do that.
Does it mean that we'll have to duplicate all of the structures
containing fields of type blk_t (like process_block_struct,
e2fsck_struct, ext2_inode_cache, ...) and also duplicate most of
the code for the functions which use variables of type blk_t?
Valérie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 15:28 [PATCH 0/8][e2fsprogs] 64-bit block number support - first part Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 15:31 ` [PATCH 1/8][e2fsprogs] use existing function ext2fs_group_first_block() Valerie Clement
2007-10-14 22:53 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 15:33 ` [PATCH 2/8][e2fsprogs] convert block number definition to blk_t Valerie Clement
2007-10-15 1:02 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/8][e2fsprogs] add new -D <desc-size> option to mkfs Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 14:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-08-30 19:12 ` Mingming Cao
2007-08-30 20:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-01 0:25 ` Mingming Cao
2007-09-04 6:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-15 1:51 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 15:38 ` [PATCH 4/8][e2fsprogs] add new macro to get descriptor number Valerie Clement
2007-10-15 2:09 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 15:39 ` [PATCH 5/8][e2fsprogs] add new inline functions to get blocks counters Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 15:40 ` [PATCH 6/8][e2fsprogs] change access to the filesystem blocks counter Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 15:42 ` [PATCH 7/8][e2fsprogs] change access to the reserved " Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 15:43 ` [PATCH 8/8][e2fsprogs] change access to the free " Valerie Clement
2007-08-30 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/8][e2fsprogs] use existing function ext2fs_group_first_block() Valerie Clement
2007-10-14 15:12 ` [PATCH 0/8][e2fsprogs] 64-bit block number support - first part Theodore Tso
2007-10-17 14:13 ` Valerie Clement [this message]
2007-10-17 14:53 ` Theodore Tso
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