From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295B37F52 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:37:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:37:01 -0600 From: Ben Myers Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: require 64-bit sector_t Message-ID: <20131213213701.GM1935@sgi.com> References: <20131114164603.GA13628@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131114164603.GA13628@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi Christoph, On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:46:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Trying to support tiny disks only and saving a bit memory might have > made sense on an SGI O2 15 years ago, but is pretty pointless today. > > Remove the rarely tested codepath that uses various smaller in-memory > types to reduce our test matrix and make the codebase a little bit > smaller and less complicated. > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig > index 399e8ce..5d47b4d 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig > +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ > config XFS_FS > tristate "XFS filesystem support" > depends on BLOCK > + depends on (64BIT || LBDAF) There are quite a few 32 bit arches in use today. We need to continue to support them in XFS as long as they are supported by the kernel. Unless I have misunderstood what you are suggesting, I believe the answer to this patch must be a firm 'no'. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs