From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0
Date: 23 Oct 2002 12:09:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035400192.13194.2.camel@plokta.s8.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210222237180.22860-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:42, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I think ext2/ext3fs's current 2Tb/4Tb limit is a much
> bigger problem, you cannot compile around that - are there any patches in
> fact that lift that limit? (well, one solution is to use another
> filesystem.)
Peter Chubb's sector_t changes effectively raise this to an 8TB limit in
2.5.x. The limit would be 16TB, but ext3 and jbd are rather cavalier
with casting block offsets between int, long, and unsigned long.
Changes to fix that would be highly intrusive.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-23 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 17:57 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-22 19:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 20:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 20:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 21:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-23 19:09 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2002-10-22 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 2:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 11:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23 14:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 14:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22 19:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-22 22:56 ` Ingo Molnar
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