From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:35:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org> <44DB3CED.7080802@sandeen.net> <44DB4107.5050001@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:54159 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161251AbWHJOgJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:36:09 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44DB4107.5050001@garzik.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, some > > new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. If it's > > supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, otherwise it > > would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general purpose fs. > > It will work just fine on 32-bit machines. > > You're making a mountain out of a molehill. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, my initial concern was this comment from Andrew: "I'd have thought that we'd just make ext4 depend on 64-bit sector_t and be done with it." This would require LBD and I don't think this is "just fine" on 32bit machines. bye, Roman