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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Takashi Sato" <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:31:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112183124.5b9b5565.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c611df$5556aa00$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>

"Takashi Sato" <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I sent following patches three weeks ago, but I got only a few
> responses.
> So, I am sending them again.  Comments are always welcome.

Please don't send multiple patches under the same Subject:.  Please try to
choose nice names for each email, as per
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt, thanks.

> We made patches to fix problems that occur when handling a large
> filesystem and a large file.  It was discussed on the mails titled
> "stat64 for over 2TB file returned invalid st_blocks".

It's best to not refer to an email thread in this manner - the covering
description for a patch should be a self-contained standalone thing which
contains all necessary info to understand the patch.

Could you remind us what problems this patch series solves?  It _appears_
to solve statfs reporting.  Does it fix anything else?  There have been a
couple of reports of filesystems outright failing on >2TB devices - does it
address those problems, if so how?

> The content of the patch attached to this mail is below.
> - inode.i_blocks
>     Change the type from unsigned long to sector_t.
> - kstat.blocks
>     Change the type from unsigned long to unsigned long long.
> - stat64.st_blocks
>     Change the type from unsigned long to unsigned long long on
>     architectures (i386, m68k, sh).

Seems reasonable.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-13  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 10:03 [PATCH 1/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file Takashi Sato
2006-01-13  2:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-13 13:48   ` Takashi Sato
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-16 13:10 Takashi Sato

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