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Re: xfsprogs support for > 1TB devices.

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfsprogs support for > 1TB devices.
From: Ragnar Kjørstad <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:32:30 +0200
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In-reply-to: <20010809114155.C260586@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>; from Nathan Scott on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +1000
References: <20010809030249.C9580@vestdata.no> <20010809114155.C260586@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > or maybe make it a unsigned long long right away..
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any point in doing that since the ioctl
> returns an unsigned long (or have I missed something?).  I think
> your "unsigned long long" suggestion would cause an xfsprogs bug
> on some 32bit platforms, no?

Yes. Sorry, I was not thinking clearly.

> Steve sent some mail discussing the size of XFS inode numbers in
> bits a little while ago that will be of interest to you too (see
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/msg00727.html).

Yes, I know about that.

Thanks.


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Ragnar Kjorstad
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