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Re: HEADS UP: ABI changes in HEAD


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:43:57 +0200
Mail-followup-to: kernel@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:01:19PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     An even bigger change (but hopefully more hidden from useland) will be
>     switching from 32 bit device block numbers to 64 bit device offsets
>     internally, which will be needed to properly address large amounts of
>     storage.

I looked at that before, it's not that bad. Biggest problem is UFS,
since it likes to non-local types in the on-disk structure.

Joerg



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