Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()

Dave Kleikamp wrote:

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:58 -0800, 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 ?



Didn't someone point out that size_t would make more sense?  There's no
reason for a 32-bit architecture to have a 64-bit b_size.


Yes. I meant to say size_t.

- Badari

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- Re: [PATCH 0/3] map multiple blocks in get_block() and mpage_readpages()
  - From: Dave Kleikamp <[email protected]>

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