Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:07:59 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean? Not yet (was Re: large-file-system) |
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 aem@netcom.ca wrote:
> > > But does it need to store _arbitrary_ 64-bit values, or does it just > > > need to store the offsets of the mapped pages used by the given Linux > > > machine? If the latter, then the original plan would have worked, > > > up until someone accessed a 1024G file. > > > > Think *HUGE*. I know people working with files, not filesystems of that > > size, though not under Linux and not via NFS. > > UDF supports a _single_ filesystem spanned across up to 65535 > pieces of media. This is intended for an optical jukebox, though > there is no restriction that any block of a file has to reside > on an particular piece of media.
This would be _very_ nice for ext2fs too. This way we can implement dynamic fs resizing and removal of the 'middle disk' without having to change all block numbers.
(read: sparse block device)
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