Details regarding Bug #1383
Gene Smith
gds at chartertn.net
Thu Mar 5 22:25:38 UTC 2009
Chris Johns wrote:
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>
> Please note this change only effects the file size you can seek not the size
> of the supported media. The libblock layers use blocks as an unsigned 32bit
> number. For a DOSFS disk with a block size of 512bytes you can have a disk of
> size (2^32) x 512. For dosfsck the direct block device interface is used and
> seeking to the end of the disk is a test performed.
>
> Regards
> Chris
Thanks, this answers my question.
-gene
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