From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chubb Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:26:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] A start at large file and filesystem support Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "David" = David Mosberger writes: David> Good work! Since this really doesn't touch any ia64 files: David> will you work directly with the respective maintainers to get David> this into the official 2.5 tree? Sure. I'll need to split off the changes from the IA64 changes, and the patch currently will crash on systems that don't use 64-bit addressing (because of the way the page cache works). I'd like to get some people who have enormous filesystems and 64-bit machines to give the patch a go. Peter> If you're bitkeeper-enabled, you can pull the patch from Peter> bk://gelato.unsw.edu.au:2022 David> Not sure how others feel about this, but I for one still like David> to get diff -u-style patches. It's just so much faster to get David> a quick idea of what the patch does. That's why I provided both -- but 1.8M of diffs is a bit much for an email. (I had to change the definition of a couple of interface functions, which meant lots of files have two line changes) Peter C