Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:13:06 +0100 | From | Ferdinand Prantl <> | Subject | Re: HPFS module can't be compiled in 2.3.29 + patch |
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On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:05:05PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:57:13AM +0100, Ferdinand Prantl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > when I was compiling 2.3.29 with HPFS as a module I came to an error > > on line 97 (and then probly on 99). It was about unknown member > > "offset" of the structure "page". I peered into include/linux/mm.h > > and there was no "offset" member in "struct page" declaration, indeed. > > I looked into smbfs code and replaced "page->offset" with > > "page->index". If you'd want to test it I'm enclosing patch to be > > copied into kernel source directory (usually /usr/src/linux) > > and to be applied: "patch -p0 <hpfs-2.3.29.patch". > > No, it is *not* the same. > > It is SCALED index to file offset, the primary mechanism > to get filesizes exceeding 2G at 32-bit linux systems.
Ooohh, thank you (I'm lucky not to use it till now I came to it yesterday...). Is there any documentation about it (I'd like to have it worked but maybe it'd be corrected in the next kernel update...) ? I tried Documentation/filesystems but still haven't a clue...
Thank you very much, anyway :-)
Cheers,
Ferda Prantl
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