Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:37:11 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 04:24 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> > > > It may surprise you to learn that not all network filesystems are block > > based. > > > > NFS has no truck with CONFIG_LBD at all. > > I thought no network filesystems are block based from a client > viewpoint. (There's a network block driver though.) Client kernel > needn't enable LBD.
Without this patch, the client _would_ have to enable LBD if it wanted to correctly report the size of a large disk on the remote server.
The main point, though is that sector_t is a handle to a block. It is _NOT_ the right type to use for reporting a disk size.
Cheers, Trond
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