Sergey Bugaev, le ven. 08 oct. 2021 21:01:09 +0300, a ecrit: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:49 PM Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's the "Extend `device_read`/`device_write` into supporting > 2TiB > > disk sizes." item in the "small hack entries" list. There's indeed the > > device_get_status() call that needs fixing, but device_read/write as > > well, they need to be extended to 64bit record numbers. > > Right. But 2 GB for a subhurd is a much more severe limitation than 2 TB. > > I wonder if it'd be possible to change device_{read,write} to use a > 64-bit integer without introducing separate new RPCs,
No: RPC interfaces have fixed typing, expressed in the mig files. Trying to magically extent is asking for much more trouble than just adding the new RPCs. Samuel
