From: Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:49:14 +0200
Curiously, this field is measured in 512 byte units, giving a 2TB Ext2
filesize limit. That's starting to look uncomfortably small - I can
easily imagine a single database file wanting to be
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > Linda Walsh wrote:
> > > It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as
> > > 'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G->1T
> > > disk size. Probably don't need to worry
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
> > It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as
> > 'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G->1T
> > disk size. Probably don't need to worry about this today, but in a few
> >
> What I'd like to add is: while we're at it, how about losing the 512
> byte magic multiplier and go with the filesystem block size? That way
> Ext2 file size automatically goes up by a factor of 8 every time we
> manage to double the filesystem block size (blocksize*2 and triple
> indirect =>
Linda Walsh wrote:
> It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as
> 'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G->1T
> disk size. Probably don't need to worry about this today, but in a few
> years? Should we be changing the internal interfaces to
Linda Walsh wrote:
It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as
'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G-1T
disk size. Probably don't need to worry about this today, but in a few
years? Should we be changing the internal interfaces to use
What I'd like to add is: while we're at it, how about losing the 512
byte magic multiplier and go with the filesystem block size? That way
Ext2 file size automatically goes up by a factor of 8 every time we
manage to double the filesystem block size (blocksize*2 and triple
indirect = 2**3).
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
It may not matter too too much, but blocks are being passed around as
'ints'. On the ia32 architecture, this implies a maximum of 512*2G-1T
disk size. Probably don't need to worry about this today, but in a few
years?
From: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:49:14 +0200
Curiously, this field is measured in 512 byte units, giving a 2TB Ext2
filesize limit. That's starting to look uncomfortably small - I can
easily imagine a single database file wanting to be
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