From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:02:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608101302270.6762@scrub.home>
Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> That also being said... does a 32-bit sector_t make any sense on a
>> 48-bit-blocknumber filesystem? I'd have thought that we'd just make ext4
>> depend on 64-bit sector_t and be done with it.
>
> Is this really necessary? There are a few features, which would make ext4
> also interesting at the low end (e.g. extents). Storing 64bit values on
> disk is fine, but they should be converted to native values as soon as
> possible.
Consider what that means. "converted to native" means dealing with
truncation issues...
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 1:20 [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 11:05 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-08-10 12:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:30 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:08 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:27 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:52 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:04 ` [Ext2-devel] " Eric Sandeen
2006-08-10 14:19 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:35 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:41 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:24 ` John Stoffel
2006-08-10 16:43 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 17:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 15:31 ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-08-10 16:37 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 21:59 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 19:17 ` Joel Becker
2006-08-10 19:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 20:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 5:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-11 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 14:48 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 0:59 ` Mingming Cao
2006-08-11 2:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-11 22:06 ` Mingming Cao
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