Re: Ext2fs 2GB limit status?

[Niels Möller]

Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl> writes:

> The thing that bothered me when reading these patches was that byte
> offsets were used quite often.  This will make it not possible to use
> partitions bigger than 4GB in some circumstances.

Can't you use byte offsets, and 64-bit variables? I means, that's the
way ordinary user code on 32-bit architectures deal with files that
are several GB; off_t has to be a 64-bit type.

Regards,
/Niels