linux-kernel - Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:40:03 -0700
From:   jdow <jdow@...thlink.net>
To:     Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>,
        Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        jdow <jdow@...thlink.net>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

BTW - anybody who uses 512 byte blocks with an Amiga file system is a famn dool.

If memory serves the RDBs think in blocks rather than bytes so it should work up 
to 2 gigablocks whatever your block size is. 512 blocks is 2199023255552 bytes. 
But that wastes just a WHOLE LOT of disk in block maps. Go up to 4096 or 8192. 
The latter is 35 TB.

{^_^}
On 20180624 02:06, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11:
>> test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511
>> indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if
>> Martin now submits the patch, all should be well?
> 
> Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it:
> 
> I do not care enough about this, in order to motivate myself preparing
> the a patch from Joanne Dow´s fix.
> 
> I am not even using my Amiga boxes anymore, not even the Sam440ep which
> I still have in my apartment.
> 
> So RDB support in Linux it remains broken for disks larger 2 TB, unless
> someone else does.
> 
> Thanks.
>