Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161281AbWHJNwo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:52:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161280AbWHJNwn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:52:43 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:33423 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161269AbWHJNwn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:52:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:52:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Jeff Garzik 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 In-Reply-To: <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 29 Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Roman Zippel wrote: > > If you force everyone to use 64bit sector numbers, I don't understand how > > you can claim "still working just fine on 32bit"? > > 64bit sector numbers work just fine on 32-bit machines. Depends on the definition of "fine". > > At some point ext4 is probably going to be the de facto standard, which very > > many people want to use, because it has all the new features, which won't be > > ported to ext2/3. So I still don't understand, what's so wrong about a > > little tuning in both directions? > > Just seems like wasted effort to me. I disagree. Many developer still brag about how Linux runs on about everything, but it's little steps like this, which make it more and more a joke. bye, Roman - 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/