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    SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
    > Well since right now you still need packets for >1024 file handles and
    > >128Mb per swap file I'd say that dev_fs is a minor worry 8). Doing >2Gig
    > files on a 32bit machine is a hard one however.

    Some months ago, I tried to write a 64-bit filesystem working on 32-bit
    machines and the only real problems were:

    - There is no way how to report 64-bit file sizes to user space.
    - mmap
    - There is no llseek hook -- the only way how to seek is to
    let the generic code set f_pos.

    It would be very nice to have at least partial 64-bit file support in 2.2
    (i.e., no mmap) as some of apps I run (especially my search engine) rely
    need multi-gigabyte files.

    Have a nice fortnight
    --
    Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
    Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
    "Hex dump: Where witches put used curses..."

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