From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731211221.A23228@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020731230412.B1237@mea-ext.zmailer.org>; from matti.aarnio@zmailer.org on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> It depends on many things:
> - Block layer (unsigned long)
> - Page indexes (unsigned long)
That grows with sizeof(unsigned long) on 64bit machines. And for the
filesystem internals just use one that is designed to be used with that
big storage devices (e.g. jfs or xfs ceratainly not ext2/3 or reiserfs3).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 19:16 Peter J. Braam
2002-07-31 19:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:04 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-07-31 20:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-02 17:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-03 3:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 5:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 7:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 7:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 9:28 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-05 13:04 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-05 13:42 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-05 13:56 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 14:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 17:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 0:16 ` jw schultz
2002-08-06 9:48 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-31 21:07 ` Jan Harkes
2002-07-31 21:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 3:51 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-01 12:01 ` Mark Mielke
2002-08-02 0:09 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-02 12:17 ` Chris Mason
2002-08-02 12:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-08-02 13:56 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-02 14:06 ` Steve Lord
2002-08-02 15:10 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 15:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 17:01 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 17:25 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 17:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 18:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:31 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 18:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:59 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-01 12:01 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
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