Re: 64 bit status report

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> My initial thought is lets get all ino_t's in linux to move to 64 bit.
> This will take time, but we should do it since file systems will get this
> big.
> 
> For XFS, this isn't a problem 'till we hit file systems around 4Tbs or so.
> But, it does become a problem.
> 


It is 2Tbytes where this will fall over, and it is not the only
thing, block numbers are passed around in 4 bytes signed values.
At 512 byte block size this also falls over at 2 Tbytes.

Steve