From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:06:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:05:56 -0500 Received: from vzn1-22.ce.ftel.net ([206.24.95.226]:48273 "EHLO spinics.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:05:51 -0500 From: ellis@spinics.net Message-Id: <200112182006.fBIK6Qh11757@spinics.net> Subject: Block device size limit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:06:26 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?