From: ellis@spinics.net
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Block device size limit
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:06:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112182006.fBIK6Qh11757@spinics.net> (raw)
It looks like a block device only has a 32 bit field to hold
the sector number. Does this limit a filesystem to 2^32
sectors?
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