Re: VFS 64-bit clean

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:19:09 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 chip@atlantic.net wrote:

> According to Rik van Riel:
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > > __u32 i_blocks; /* Blocks count */
> > The number of blocks needs to be higher when we have
> > 64-bit sized files.
>
> Good point.

Euhmm, wait a moment... When we do that, we'll
also need to increase every other pointer to
blocks as well as the superblock format...

Let's wait with this until ext3fs :-)

Rik.
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