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From: "Takashi Sato" <sho@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <Ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:45:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <019901c662bc$1c4c1640$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060413162028.GA23452@thunk.org>

Hi, Ted

> We could bump the major version number, but what I'd much rather do is
> to create new functions which use the 64-bit blk64_t (i.e.,
> ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap2).  This will make the patches much bigger,
> but it allows us to preserve backwards compatibility.

I'm trying to add new functions which use the 64-bit block number in
e2fsprogs.  But I think the name "ext2fs_mark_blocks_bitmap2" is rather
obscure.  How about adding "_64" to the end of the name? (i.e. ext2fs_
mark_block_bitmap_64 for ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap)

Cheers, sho

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13  7:12 sho
2006-04-13 16:20 ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Ts'o
2006-04-17 12:30   ` Takashi Sato
2006-04-17 12:48     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-18  4:37       ` Takashi Sato
2006-04-17 13:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-18  7:45   ` Takashi Sato [this message]

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