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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:32:01 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8 disklabel.c 
Message-ID:  <200102260232.f1Q2W1d10200@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:28:44 PST." <3A99BF5C.252CF8D@gorean.org> 
References:  <3A99BF5C.252CF8D@gorean.org>  <200102251647.f1PGliB66323@freefall.freebsd.org> <200102252336.f1PNa3Y01236@billy-club.village.org> 

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In message <3A99BF5C.252CF8D@gorean.org> Doug Barton writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: > In message <200102251647.f1PGliB66323@freefall.freebsd.org> "John W. De Boskey" writes:
: > :      This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on
: > :   large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before
: > :   performing major surgery on them.
: > 
: > The style issues aren't that important, but the problems with very
: > large disks are so don't be in too much of a hurry to MFC these.
: 
: 	Can you define "large" here? It's very much a relative term in today's
: market...

IIRC, the intereger overflow in the calculations happen in the few
hundred G range, but I may be off by a factor of 10 (eg, a few tens of
Gig or a few Tera).  I'll check it out after my next cvsup.

Warner

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