Re: Better Linux Kernel Patch for 4GB Inode Problem
>From paul@serice.net Wed Jun 9 20:59:35 2004
> > Why is it soo hard to understand that you cannot divide by 64 while
> > the smallest directory entry is 34 bytes and most real life entries
> > are still smaller than 64 bytes?
>I'm fairly certain I'm dividing by 32. The second patch has the
>following:
> block << 6
>which is the same as
> block << (11 - 5)
>which (assuming arbitrary precision) is the same as
> (block << 11) >> 5
>which is the byte offset divided by 32. So, the math was correct
>from the start, right?
The version I did see, did right shift by 6.
This is a division by 64
Jörg
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