Re: ext4 64bit (disk >16TB) question

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:00:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The get_size() function (actual name is a bit longer) does use a blk_t
> * to store the disks size and returns EFBIG if the disk exceeds 2^32
> blocks. So now you have three choices:
> 
> 1) break abi:  get_size(blk64_t *size)
> 2) extend abi: get_size64(blk64_t *size);
> 3) versioned symbols: get_size_old(blk_t *size) + get_size_new(blk64_t
> *size) and versioned to use the right one.

... and I'm chosing choice (2a):

    get_size2(blk64_t *size);

							- Ted
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