Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:08:59 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:45323 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:08:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:12:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matti Aarnio Cc: "Peter J. Braam" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems Message-ID: <20020731211221.A23228@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Matti Aarnio , "Peter J. Braam" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20020731131620.M15238@lustre.cfs> <20020731202638.A22765@infradead.org> <20020731230412.B1237@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020731230412.B1237@mea-ext.zmailer.org>; from matti.aarnio@zmailer.org on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 14 On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > It depends on many things: > - Block layer (unsigned long) > - Page indexes (unsigned long) That grows with sizeof(unsigned long) on 64bit machines. And for the filesystem internals just use one that is designed to be used with that big storage devices (e.g. jfs or xfs ceratainly not ext2/3 or reiserfs3). - 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/