Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:12:21 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: BIG files & file systems |
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > It depends on many things: > - Block layer (unsigned long) > - Page indexes (unsigned long)
That grows with sizeof(unsigned long) on 64bit machines. And for the filesystem internals just use one that is designed to be used with that big storage devices (e.g. jfs or xfs ceratainly not ext2/3 or reiserfs3).
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