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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:53:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910165327.GB23700@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA92307.4010304@redhat.com>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:02:15AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Today, the ext4 allocator will happily allocate blocks past
> 232 for indirect-block files, which results in the block
> numbers getting truncated, and corruption ensues.

Everywhere where you say 232, you mean 2^32, right?

	   	     	      	       	     - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 22:17 [PATCH, RFC] ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32 Eric Sandeen
2009-09-05  3:21 ` [PATCH, RFC V2] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-05 16:45   ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-05 18:16     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 16:02     ` [PATCH, RFC V3] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 16:53       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-09-10 16:56         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:10       ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-10 21:16         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:33           ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-10 21:42             ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:51           ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-10 21:57             ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 23:19               ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-11 14:15                 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 22:01             ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-14 20:03       ` [PATCH, RFC V4] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-16 18:54         ` Theodore Tso

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