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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:24:25 +0200 (CEST)
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cmm@us.ibm.com,
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Hi,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> With CONFIG_LBD, 32-bit machines can already support large block
> devices.
> 
> If you feel that hardcoding u64 as sector numbers will mean ext4 suddenly
> fails on 32-bit, you misunderstand the situation completely.

With CONFIG_LBD disabled you still had the truncation/complexity issues 
somewhere else, so you gain nothing, but waste memory in ext4.

bye, Roman