On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:53:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Plus compile time options are nasty :-). It would probably make
> bigger sense to completely skip all the merging etc for low end
> machines. I think they already do this for embedded kernels (ie
> removing ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c).
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:53:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > OTOH, I'm not sure what problems it could give to make this
> > a compile-time option...
>
> Plus compile time options are nasty :-). It would probably make
> bigger sense to completely skip all the merging etc for low end
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:53:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > how would you feel about having the block device layer 64-bit
> > > > capable, so Linux can have block devices of more than 2GB in
> > > > size ?
> > >
> > > I already did this here, or s
On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > how would you feel about having the block device layer 64-bit
> > > capable, so Linux can have block devices of more than 2GB in
> > > size ?
> >
> > I already did this here, or something similar at least. Using
> > a sector_t type that is 64-bit, reg
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > how would you feel about having the block device layer 64-bit
> > capable, so Linux can have block devices of more than 2GB in
> > size ?
>
> I already did this here, or something similar at least. Using
> a sect
On Wed, Mar 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> how would you feel about having the block device layer 64-bit
> capable, so Linux can have block devices of more than 2GB in
> size ?
>
> I know that 64-bit arithmetic is expensive on 32-bit platforms,
> but I have the idea there is a way
Hi Linus,
how would you feel about having the block device layer 64-bit
capable, so Linux can have block devices of more than 2GB in
size ?
I know that 64-bit arithmetic is expensive on 32-bit platforms,
but I have the idea there is a way around that for people who
don't want 64-bit capable bloc
7 matches
Mail list logo