Shawn wrote: > Jürgen Keil wrote: > >> In short, this is a limitation of the VTOC format Solaris > >> uses for disk labelling. > > > > This should have been fixed quite a few builds ago (b99+). > > I was respond to the 32-bit case, which as you noted, remains unfixed. > > I don't yet know or understand why the 32-bit case could not be fixed, > but the 64-bit case could be; I suspect kernel data structure types are > to blame?
Yes, daddr_t is defined as a signed long in the 32-bit kernel. So 2^31-1 is the maximum disk block address that can be used in the 32-bit kernel. There already is a lldaddr_t 64-bit type, but I suspect there are too may parts in the kernel that still use daddr_t. And redefining daddr_t as a 64-bit type won't work because it breaks binary compatibility. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
