Re: [PATCH] 64-bit file sizes in NTFS

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:17:54PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:39:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Index: include/grub/ntfs.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- include/grub/ntfs.h     (revision 2584)
> > +++ include/grub/ntfs.h     (working copy)
> > @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ struct grub_fshelp_node
> >  {
> >    struct grub_ntfs_data *data;
> >    char *buf;
> > -  grub_uint32_t size;
> > +  grub_uint64_t size;
> >    grub_uint32_t ino;
> >    int inode_read;
> >    struct grub_ntfs_attr attr;
> 
> Would this change offsets in subsequent struct fields?  (I notice it's not
> packed, but I always forget the alignment rules...)

It probably would, but I don't think anything cares, does it? This data
structure is purely internal - it isn't read from disk in a way that
expects structures to line up.

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