Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Roman Zippel <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:24:25 +0200 (CEST)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.file-systems
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> With CONFIG_LBD, 32-bit machines can already support large block
> devices.
> 
> If you feel that hardcoding u64 as sector numbers will mean ext4 suddenly
> fails on 32-bit, you misunderstand the situation completely.

With CONFIG_LBD disabled you still had the truncation/complexity issues 
somewhere else, so you gain nothing, but waste memory in ext4.

bye, Roman