From: "Ragnar Kjørstad" <lvm@ragnark.vestdata.no>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] FW: LVM on Linux
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:10:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010717201024.B29034@vestdata.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010717174008.A1000@btconnect.com>; from Joe Thornber on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:40:08PM +0100
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:40:08PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> This one keeps resurfacing so I had a look at it.
>
> I had a look at Ben LaHaise's patch, it seems to be ensuring that all
> sector offsets are stored in a blkoff_t variable, which presumably is
> an unsigned 64 bit integer. The rest of the patch goes through some
> of the block drivers (eg, loop) and ensures that no *, / or %
> operations are performed on blkoff_t's. Good stuff.
blkoff_t is 64 bit on 64 bit machines, and configurable (32/64) on 32
bit machines. Excelent IMHO.
--
Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-17 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-16 20:42 [linux-lvm] FW: LVM on Linux Gonyou, Austin
2001-07-16 21:10 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-07-17 16:40 ` Joe Thornber
2001-07-17 18:10 ` Ragnar Kjørstad [this message]
2001-07-17 19:23 ` Ralph Jennings
2001-07-18 8:16 ` Joe Thornber
2001-07-18 15:01 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-18 16:58 ` Steven Lembark
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-16 23:26 Gonyou, Austin
2001-07-16 23:58 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-07-16 20:35 Gonyou, Austin
2001-07-17 11:27 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
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