HEADS UP: ABI changes in HEAD

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