Re: [PATCH] config: Fix CONFIG_LFS option

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 14:34 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:

The help text says that if you select CONFIG_LBD, then it will
automatically select CONFIG_LFS. Nope... That isn't currently the
case.

I'm not sure your patch makes anything much better, though.

Why does CONFIG_LSF exist in the first place? Afaik, it only affects a
totally not-very-interesting thing (blkcnt_t) for a totally not very
interesting feature (the number of people who want single files >2TB is
likely not very big).

Having it auto-selected by LBD sounds insane, since LBD is likely more
interesting than LSF itsef is. It would make more sense to go the other
way (have LSF auto-select LBD).

NFSv3 and CIFS are two examples of commonly used filesystems that don't
care a hoot for CONFIG_LBD, but that still want to be able to support
large values for inode->i_blocks.

Cheers,
Trond
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