Re: 2.5.28 and partitions

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Alexander Viro wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
>
>Separate set of patches.  As it is, struct hd_struct is still there and
>still not modified.  And it has unsigned long.  It will become sector_t.
>
>Actually, I'm not all that sure that we want u64 here.  The thing being,
>start_sect shouldn't be bigger than sector_t (see how it's used).  And
>64bit arithmetics on 32bit boxen sucks big way.  I'm not too concerned
>about adding start_sect per se - it's done once per request and it's
>noise compared to the rest of work.  However, long long for sector_t
>will hit in a lot of more interesting code paths.
>
>That stuff becomes an issue for 2Tb disks.  Do we actually have something
>that large attached to 32bit boxen?
>
I do.  Two 3ware 7850's with 8 160GB hd's on each.  Wanted
to software strip but I hit the 2TB limit and ended up settling
with software mirror.  This is on a dual Athlon box.

>
>... and still use i386 with these disks?  ia64 is stillborn, but x86-64
>promises to be more useful than Itanic.
>
Will be nice when it arrives.

Steve