Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > With CONFIG_LBD, 32-bit machines can already support large block > devices. > > If you feel that hardcoding u64 as sector numbers will mean ext4 suddenly > fails on 32-bit, you misunderstand the situation completely. With CONFIG_LBD disabled you still had the truncation/complexity issues somewhere else, so you gain nothing, but waste memory in ext4. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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