Support of files/raw partitions > 4Gb

[Kirill Berezin]

There is problem with the size of field blocknumber of OVINDEX structure 
while mapping a memory for writing/reading headers. Current size of 
blocknumber is unsigned int and it seems enough to store a number of 
blocks, but when we multiply this by OV_BLOCKSIZE we get a wrong result 
for buffers with more than 500000 blocks.  I suggest a  macro  to 
encapsulate a calculation of a block offset or use off_t instead of 
unsigned int in blocknumber declaration. I used a macro. Innd started 4 
days ago, today about 1,5 million indexes in use, 4 raw partitions 14Gb 
each, no warning or errors.
kirill

Russ Allbery writes:
> Kirill Berezin <kyb at online.ru> writes:
>
>   
>> I am talking about both cnfs and buffindexed buffers.  CNFS seems
>> working fine with 64 bit offset. But buffindexed method requires a
>> little change to support a correct reading of buffers' length over 4 Gb.
>> Constant at line 316 of buffindexed.c must have an explicit type
>> conversion:
>>     
>
>   
>> len = strtoul(l, NULL, 10) * 1024;     /* This value in KB in decimal */
>>                                              ^ must be `(off_t)1024`
>>     
>
> This problem is now fixed in Subversion.
>
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