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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file
"Takashi Sato" <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I sent following patches three weeks ago, but I got only a few
> responses.
> So, I am sending them again. Comments are always welcome.

Please don't send multiple patches under the same Subject:. Please try to
choose nice names for each email, as per
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt, thanks.

> We made patches to fix problems that occur when handling a large
> filesystem and a large file. It was discussed on the mails titled
> "stat64 for over 2TB file returned invalid st_blocks".

It's best to not refer to an email thread in this manner - the covering
description for a patch should be a self-contained standalone thing which
contains all necessary info to understand the patch.

Could you remind us what problems this patch series solves? It _appears_
to solve statfs reporting. Does it fix anything else? There have been a
couple of reports of filesystems outright failing on >2TB devices - does it
address those problems, if so how?

> The content of the patch attached to this mail is below.
> - inode.i_blocks
> Change the type from unsigned long to sector_t.
> - kstat.blocks
> Change the type from unsigned long to unsigned long long.
> - stat64.st_blocks
> Change the type from unsigned long to unsigned long long on
> architectures (i386, m68k, sh).

Seems reasonable.

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