Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:31:24 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file |
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"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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