Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | 512 byte magic multiplier (was: Large File support and blocks) | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2000 18:37:50 +0200 |
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Linda Walsh wrote: > It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as > 'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G->1T > disk size. Probably don't need to worry about this today, but in a few > years? Should we be changing the internal interfaces to use a long (or > a long unsigned -- why signed?) Maybe for 2.5/2.6 timeframe? Just > curious...
As far as the VFS goes, this is only in the fs-dependent part of the inode. The practical effect is the same.
What I'd like to add is: while we're at it, how about losing the 512 byte magic multiplier and go with the filesystem block size? That way Ext2 file size automatically goes up by a factor of 8 every time we manage to double the filesystem block size (blocksize*2 and triple indirect => 2**3).
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