From: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
To: Christian Schmid <webmaster@rapidforum.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large Block Devices not supported in 64 bit
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:45:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D15876-B70D-421D-B16E-247CC3ADD1B8@bootc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FEE554.5050903@rapidforum.com>
On 6 Sep 2006, at 16:12, Christian Schmid wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I run kernel 2.6.17.11 vanilla in 64 bit mode with 32 bit emulation.
>
> Unfortunately there is no support for file-systems bigger than 2 TB
> in 64 bit mode.
There is. There just isn't any support for having the feature turned
off. After all, the code needed on 32-bit systems to have large files
(64-bit file offsets) isn't necessary on 64-bit systems: file offsets
are already 64-bit by nature.
HTH,
Chris
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Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
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