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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:39:46 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        julian@elischer.org
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: patches for sysinstall (4.x) for >1TB disks
Message-ID:  <20021114.213946.45875394.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211141242130.36211-200000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211141242130.36211-200000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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In message: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211141242130.36211-200000@InterJet.elischer.org>
            Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
: If I get no complaints I'll commit these to 4.x.
: It's all different in 5.x so an MFC doesn't really work..

Is there any reason that you didn't just jump to int64_t for blocks
and such?  You have a limit of 2T still with these patchs.  I don't
know if the drivers would support more than this, but it wouldn't hurt
to have the upper layers know how to do it once there's driver
support...  In current daddr_t is __int64_t, but only int32_t in
-stable.  Of course, -stable can't support more than 2T, so maybe this
is moot.

Ideally, you'd make sure that you can do this on -current with the
massively different code, and suggest patches if not.

Warner

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