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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()
Badari Pulavarty wrote:

>
>Thanks. Only current issue Nathan raised is, he wants to see
>b_size change to u64 (instead of u32) to support really-huge-IO
>requests. Does this sound reasonable to you ?
>

I believe that the various read and write system calls impose a 32 bit limit
on the size of the i/o request, so you may need to look at that too.

Increasing the size of b_size would address a bug which exists when trying
to read more than 4GB from a block device which is greater than 4GB in size.
Currently, that bug is masked because the maximum system call size is
arbitrarily limited.

Thanx...

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