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SubjectRe: breaking the 2Gigabyte limit on 32 bit arch of inode->i_size (off_t vs loff_t)
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:

>for, why not base which is used off of that? Or does doing it these different
>ways cause incompatible filesystems? Also, if possible it would be nice for

The disk side is indipended by the fact that the arch is 32bit or 64bit
based. The disk just now in ext2 handle inode sizes of 64bit, the problem in
x86 is that we are not using the high part of the inode size information
stored on disk.

Andrea Arcangeli


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