Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:14:57 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html