"Takashi Sato" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> his fix was proposed by Trond Myklebust. He says:
> The type "sector_t" is heavily tied in to the block layer interface
> as an offset/handle to a block, and is subject to a supposedly
> block-specific configuration option: CONFIG_LBD. Despite this, it is
> used in struct kstatfs to save a couple of bytes on the stack
> whenever we call the filesystems' ->statfs().
>
> So kstatfs's entries related to blocks are invalid on statfs64 for a
> network filesystem which has more than 2^32-1 blocks when CONFIG_LBD
> is disabled.
>
That makes sense, thanks.
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