HEADS UP: ABI changes in HEAD

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Jul 27 16:49:41 PDT 2005


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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