Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10T13:15:06Z

Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64.
>>> Why?
>> To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious?
>
> Considering the amount of complexity we add for the high end, why is it
> suddenly a bad thing to add even a _little_ complexity for the other end?

This is ext4 not ext3 we're talking about. The next gen Linux
filesystem should be tuned for modern machines -- 64bit, moving forward
-- while still working just fine on 32bit.

Jeff