Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:28:41 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: breaking the 2Gigabyte limit on 32 bit arch of inode->i_size (off_t vs loff_t) |
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Hi,
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:04:32 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Alexander Viro wrote: >> anything along the lines of ext2 on such sizes. Think of the time fsck
> I am not talking about ext2 infact.
What are you talking about then? Any next-generation filesystem designed for 64-bit file sizes is going to be best served by mapping entire extents, not single blocks, in the mapping tree. Preferably the tree should be dynamically allocated and balanced (and if we want to support file holes properly, it will _have_ to be balanced dynamically). In this case, the concept of quad-indirection as such becomes meaningless.
--Stephen
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