Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161261AbWHJOgL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:36:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161272AbWHJOgL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:36:11 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:54159 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161251AbWHJOgJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:36:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:35:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Jeff Garzik cc: Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string In-Reply-To: <44DB4107.5050001@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> <44DB3CED.7080802@sandeen.net> <44DB4107.5050001@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: 986 Lines: 24 Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, some > > new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. If it's > > supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, otherwise it > > would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general purpose fs. > > It will work just fine on 32-bit machines. > > You're making a mountain out of a molehill. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, my initial concern was this comment from Andrew: "I'd have thought that we'd just make ext4 depend on 64-bit sector_t and be done with it." This would require LBD and I don't think this is "just fine" on 32bit machines. 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/