From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:54:33 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:62727 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:54:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDB51D6.8000302@evision-ventures.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:51:34 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Chubb CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit In-Reply-To: <15579.16423.930012.986750@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.