Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:06:27 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:05:58AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > There is no flag day. The kernel must be updated, glibc must be > updated, user space software must be updated. A long process > that will take years. Indeed, so far we have not succeeded in > updating the kernel, and eight years went by.
Yes, software must be updated. Why on earth would you update it twice when once will do?
> Filesystems? Last I looked reiserfs handled 32 bits.
And you treat it as having 16bits until reiser4 or reiser5 handles 64bits.
Joel
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