Re: VFS 64-bit clean? Not yet (was Re: large-file-system)

chip@atlantic.net
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:02:25 -0500 (EST)

According to Alan Cox:
> > > Make it 64-bit. Things like NFS-V3 require it, and there's no point
> > > in reworking a lot of the VFS code if we're still going to impose
> > > artificial limits in it.
> >
> > NFS V3 can't require anything of our page structure. But your point
> > is well-made.
>
> It can. NFS V3 is 64bit and needs to put 64bit values in the page
> cache to get full results.

But does it need to store _arbitrary_ 64-bit values, or does it just
need to store the offsets of the mapped pages used by the given Linux
machine? If the latter, then the original plan would have worked,
up until someone accessed a 1024G file.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg                - a.k.a. -                <chip@pobox.com>
      "Hoist the failure sails, men!  We're goin' home!"  // MST3K


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