[PATCH] xfs: require 64-bit sector_t

Ben Myers bpm at sgi.com
Thu Jan 9 09:19:03 CST 2014


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:15:59PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> Hey Christoph,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:46:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Trying to support tiny disks only and saving a bit memory might have
> > made sense on an SGI O2 15 years ago, but is pretty pointless today.
> > 
> > Remove the rarely tested codepath that uses various smaller in-memory
> > types to reduce our test matrix and make the codebase a little bit
> > smaller and less complicated.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> This looks ok to me.  I'm not seeing much downside to removing the smaller
> in-memory types.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>

Anyone else have an opinion on this one?  I think its 3.14 material and I'd
like to pull it in.

Thanks,
	Ben



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