Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Fri, 10 May 2002 06:51:34 +0200


Uz.ytkownik Peter Chubb napisa?:
> Hi,
> At present, linux is limited to 2TB filesystems even on 64-bit
> systems, because there are various places where the block offset on
> disc are assigned to unsigned or int 32-bit variables.
>
> There's a type, sector_t, that's meant to hold offsets in sectors and
> blocks. It's not used consistently (yet).
>

The IDE part of it appears to be sane. I will take it.

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