On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:20:17AM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > So if you think you can support 16TiB devices and leave pgoff_t 32-bit, > send a patch that does it. > > Until you make it, you should apply the patch that I sent, that prevents > kernel lockups or data corruption when the user uses 16TiB device on > 32-bit kernel. Exactly. I had actually looked into support for > 16TiB devices for a NAS use case a while ago, but when explaining the effort involves the idea was dropped quickly. The Linux block device is too deeply tied to the pagecache to make it easily feasible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
