Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161887AbWHJNPG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:15:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161885AbWHJNPG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:15:06 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:16608 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161883AbWHJNPE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:15:04 -0400 Message-ID: <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:14:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Andrew Morton , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 21 Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>> Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64. >>> Why? >> To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious? > > Considering the amount of complexity we add for the high end, why is it > suddenly a bad thing to add even a _little_ complexity for the other end? This is ext4 not ext3 we're talking about. The next gen Linux filesystem should be tuned for modern machines -- 64bit, moving forward -- while still working just fine on 32bit. Jeff - 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/