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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] reject too-large filesystems on 32-bit kernels
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:47:24 -0400
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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