From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:51:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDB51D6.8000302@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15579.16423.930012.986750@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
Uz.ytkownik Peter Chubb napisa?:
> Hi,
> At present, linux is limited to 2TB filesystems even on 64-bit
> systems, because there are various places where the block offset on
> disc are assigned to unsigned or int 32-bit variables.
>
> There's a type, sector_t, that's meant to hold offsets in sectors and
> blocks. It's not used consistently (yet).
>
The IDE part of it appears to be sane. I will take it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-10 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-10 3:36 [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-10 8:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-10 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-16 19:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-10 9:05 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-10 9:53 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-10 11:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-10 4:51 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
[not found] ` <20020510084713.43ce396e.jeremy@kerneltrap.org>
2002-05-10 19:12 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-10 23:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-11 0:07 ` David Mosberger
2002-05-15 22:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-16 20:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-16 22:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-17 1:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-11 4:40 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-15 13:49 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-11 18:13 ` Padraig Brady
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-10 3:53 Neil Brown
[not found] <1060250300@toto.iv>
2002-05-13 10:28 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-13 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-14 0:30 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-14 1:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-16 20:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-14 2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-14 2:58 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-14 7:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-14 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-15 9:41 Hirotaka Sasaki
2002-05-15 21:49 ` Steve Lord
[not found] <581856778@toto.iv>
2002-05-17 0:04 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-17 0:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 13:32 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-17 18:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 18:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-17 18:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-17 19:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-17 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 15:26 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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