Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10T13:30:46Z

Roman Zippel wrote:
> If you force everyone to use 64bit sector numbers, I don't understand how
> you can claim "still working just fine on 32bit"?

64bit sector numbers work just fine on 32-bit machines.

> At some point ext4 is probably going to be the de facto standard, which
> very many people want to use, because it has all the new features, which
> won't be ported to ext2/3. So I still don't understand, what's so wrong
> about a little tuning in both directions?

Just seems like wasted effort to me.

Jeff