Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

[Jeff Garzik]

Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64.
> > > Why?
> > To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious?
>
> Considering the amount of complexity we add for the high end, why is it 
> suddenly a bad thing to add even a _little_ complexity for the other end?

This is ext4 not ext3 we're talking about.  The next gen Linux 
filesystem should be tuned for modern machines -- 64bit, moving forward 
-- while still working just fine on 32bit.

	Jeff


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