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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:07:22PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > I haven't really looked at the code yet, but just thought I'd toss this
> > out & see what other people thought--I haven't seen any mention of tera=
byte
> > arrays & NetBSD on the net anywhere.
>=20
> There are a lot (and I mean LOT) of places where the disk sector number
> is held in an int.  Much of the kernel was changed to use daddr_t (64bit)
> but that doesn't help much since all the disklabel/mbr handling only
> had 32 bit fields.
> Clearly the 32bit values could be unsigned, but that only gives a factor
> of 2 - and if you can build a 1TB disk, a 2TB one shouldn't be hard!

Note that negative values of 32 bit disk numbers are used as a special flag
in some places in the file system code. On-disk.

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