Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:49:53 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <200002170449.UAA56450@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200002152107.PAA75509@aurora.sol.net> <200002160012.QAA46218@apollo.backplane.com> <20000217131839.H20710@freebie.lemis.com>
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:I think that at some point we'll need larger block numbers than will
:no longer fit in 32 bits. I'd rather we went to byte offsets, though,
:rather than block numbers.
:
:Greg
Good point. When we are faced with having to move from 32 to 64 bit
block numbers, I agree completely that we should probably turn them
into 64 bit byte offsets.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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