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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][8/21]ext3 modify variables to exceed 2G
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On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:23 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> Thank you for your comment, Andreas.
>
> > Takashi-san, please, it would make the code much more maintainable if the
> > changes made here would use new types for filesystem-wide block offsets
> > and for file-relative block offsets, as was previously discussed, instead
> > of just changing some variables to be unsigned long. Like:
> >
> > typedef unsigned long ext3_fsblk_t; # block offset in the filesystem
> > typedef unsigned long ext3_fscnt_t; # block count in the filesystem
> > typedef unsigned long ext3_fileblk_t; # block offset in a file
>
> I agree that, but it will need a lots of work...
> Mingming, you got same comment from Andreas in "Extend ext3
> filesystem limit from 8TB to 16TB", did you do something about
> this?

No, I haven't get chance to do it yet. Please feel free to take it.:)

Laurent did some ground work for the filesystem wide physical block
number in his 64 bit ext3 patches. He changed physical block number from
"unsigned long" to "sector_t", that's probably a good start.

BTW, I think we should have one more:

typedef long ext3_grpblk_t; # block offset in the block group


Mingming

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