Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:33:54 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file |
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"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. >
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