Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:26:44 -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: > 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. You gain simplicity and reduced number of code paths. "waste memory" is hardly a significant argument. I doubt you will notice a difference. 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