linux-kernel - Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

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Message-Id: <20080410180335.6a748c78.diegocg@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:03:35 +0200
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

El Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:09 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> escribió:

> I think this is worth fixing.

This question comes very often, and Linus even wrote a patch
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 , http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130)

But apparently there's no much interest in fixing it, because it would
slow down some workloads...
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