Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file

[Andrew Morton]

"Takashi Sato" <sho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  This is a patch to add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks.
>  This enables you to make the size of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes
>  on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF.

What was the rationale behind CONFIG_LSF?  It's a bit of an ugly thing and
I'm wondering if we wouldn't be better off just removing it and simply
fixing >2TB support for all .configs?

Do the common userspace tools need to be updated for this, or do they
already get it right?
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