Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271584AbTGQWbb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:31:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271601AbTGQWaD (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:30:03 -0400 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:49393 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271612AbTGQW26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:28:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:43:08 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Andrew Morton , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030717224307.GF19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andries Brouwer , Andrew Morton , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717122600.A2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org> <20030718002451.A2569@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030718002451.A2569@pclin040.win.tue.nl> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 31 On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:24:51AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Premise: some filesystems or archives store 32 bits. > Conclusion: we must be able to handle that. > This is unrelated to the kernel, unrelated to system calls, > it is related to . How does linux handle that today? IIRC, it ignores the high 16bits and treats that 32bit number as 8:8. That is what happens today, for every filesystem, whether it stores 32 or 16 bits. Why expand that? We can continue to treat 32bit numbers (eg, from NFSv2) as 16bit numbers. Joel -- "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/