From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:43:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030717224307.GF19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718002451.A2569@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:24:51AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Premise: some filesystems or archives store 32 bits.
> Conclusion: we must be able to handle that.
> This is unrelated to the kernel, unrelated to system calls,
> it is related to <sys/sysmacros.h>.
How does linux handle that today? IIRC, it ignores the high
16bits and treats that 32bit number as 8:8. That is what happens today,
for every filesystem, whether it stores 32 or 16 bits.
Why expand that? We can continue to treat 32bit numbers (eg,
from NFSv2) as 16bit numbers.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-17 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-16 18:46 [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Greg KH
2003-07-16 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:02 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 21:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 22:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 23:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-16 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 8:27 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 8:47 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-17 9:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 10:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-17 10:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 10:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 11:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 11:46 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-17 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-17 22:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 22:43 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-07-17 23:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-17 23:49 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 0:04 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-18 1:05 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-18 8:06 ` Joel Becker
2003-07-17 3:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <200307170300.UAA24096@cesium.transmeta.com>
2003-07-17 10:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-20 14:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-16 21:36 ` Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:11 ` what's left for 64 bit dev_t Greg KH
2003-07-16 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-16 22:48 ` Greg KH
2003-07-17 3:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-17 13:59 ` Andries Brouwer
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