Hi Eric: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Eric Sandeen<sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Curt Wohlgemuth wrote: >> I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I'm having trouble >> understanding the huge_file superblock flag. >> >> I see how, if this flag is set, that the inode can have a size > 2**32 >> bytes, using the i_size_lo/i_size_high fields. >> >> But since an ext4_extent only uses 32-bits for for its ee_block field >> to represent the logical block, how can an extent describe any block >> range of a file past the 4GiB boundary? >> >> Am I missing something? > > i_size_lo/hi is in bytes, ee_block is in .... blocks. > > so 2^32 blocks is a lot more than 2^32 bytes, and i_size_hi/lo are > needed to contain it. I think. :) Oops. Of course. I knew it had to be something simple. Thanks, Curt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
