From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] reject too-large filesystems on 32-bit kernels
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:47:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090818034724.GA27339@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A83427F.60106@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:30:23PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> ext4 will happily mount a > 16T filesystem on a 32-bit box, but
> this is not safe; writes to the block device will wrap past 16T
> and the page cache can't index past 16T (232 index * 4k pages).
Applied in the ext4 patch queue, with minor changes to take into
account the use of ext4_msg().
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 22:06 [PATCH] reject too-large filesystems on 32-bit kernels Eric Sandeen
2009-08-12 22:30 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2009-08-18 3:47 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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