Ed Cashin wrote...
> Thanks. This looks interesting. I like the way you provided a
> detailed explanation of the motivation for the patch.
You're welcome.
> Do you agree that the offset should be a vlong so that it can
> support the same large values that the size can support? An
> unsigned int sometimes isn't going to be 64 bits.
You're totally right, and I should have done so in the first place.
Using unsigned might cause trouble when you expect it the least, and
there's also no reason to limit the offset to 2 TiB.
Related, I was asked in private whether to add another option to limit
the length of the export. While personally I have no use for that[1],
other people might see the need. The patch should be really simple.
Christoph
[1] The legacy Linux softraid version 0.90 has its magic at the end
of the disk.
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