Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Eric Sandeen <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:11:13 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mingming Cao wrote:

> When we cleanup ext3 code to fix some "int" type block numbers to
> "unsigned long" type to able to truely support 2^32 bit ext3 (otherwise
> ext3 is limited to 2^31 blocks (8TB)), we had to go through a lot of
> printk to modify the format string from %d to %lu. It's a pain.

<OT>
FWIW, ext3 still isn't 32-bit clean, in my testing.  The types are ok but the 
code overflows them with arithmetic in some places.  Look for patches from me 
soon ;-)
</OT>

-eric


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