Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:41:21 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/powerpc/include types.h src/sys/arm/include types.h src/sys/i386/include types.h Message-ID: <68610.1024915281@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:23:43 PDT." <20020624022343.3FDDB380E@overcee.wemm.org>
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In message <20020624022343.3FDDB380E@overcee.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >If this really is necessary, then we may as well strip out the pindex stuff >entirely and just use 64 bit byte offsets instead of >"64bit pindex::32bit offset". ie: why carry a 96 bit synthetic value when >we only need a 64 bit value? It should be noted that our device I/O path will still be limited to 2^64 bytes, not 2^64 sectors. (Yes, I know about sparse files). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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