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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file
    "Takashi Sato" <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
    >
    > his fix was proposed by Trond Myklebust. He says:
    > The type "sector_t" is heavily tied in to the block layer interface
    > as an offset/handle to a block, and is subject to a supposedly
    > block-specific configuration option: CONFIG_LBD. Despite this, it is
    > used in struct kstatfs to save a couple of bytes on the stack
    > whenever we call the filesystems' ->statfs().
    >
    > So kstatfs's entries related to blocks are invalid on statfs64 for a
    > network filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks when CONFIG_LBD
    > is disabled.
    >

    That makes sense, thanks.
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