Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:35:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string |
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Hi,
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, some > > new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. If it's > > supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, otherwise it > > would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general purpose fs. > > It will work just fine on 32-bit machines. > > You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, my initial concern was this comment from Andrew: "I'd have thought that we'd just make ext4 depend on 64-bit sector_t and be done with it." This would require LBD and I don't think this is "just fine" on 32bit machines.
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