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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:06:38 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0800, LA Walsh wrote:
> So...is it the plan, or has it been though about -- 'abstracting'
> block numbes as a typedef 'block_nr', then at compile time
> having it be selectable as to whether or not this was to
> be a 32-bit or 64 bit quantity -- that way older systems would

Oh, did no-one mention the words `Module ABI' yet?

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