Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:41:25 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 64bit offsets for block devices ? |
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Hi,
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:50:15AM -0800, Reto Baettig wrote:
> Imagine we have a virtual disk which provides a 64bit (sparse) address > room. Unfortunately we can not use it as a block device because in a lot > of places (including buffer_head structure), we're using a long or even > an int for the block number. > > Is there any way of getting a standardized way of doing I/O to a block > device which could handle 64bit addresses for the block number?
It's on the agenda for urgent fixing in 2.5 (along with block-dev-layer support for high memory on Intel, and merging in better disk profiling, and a general cleanup of the data tables in ll_rw_blk.c).
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