From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 24 3:43:29 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D99A37B401; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 03:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5OAfLCn068611; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:41:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Ian Dowse , 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:23:43 PDT." <20020624022343.3FDDB380E@overcee.wemm.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:41:21 +0200 Message-ID: <68610.1024915281@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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