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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ext2 allocator overflows above 31 bit blocks
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:14:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46294967.6070601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070420230208.GU5967@schatzie.adilger.int>

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2007  12:10 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> If ext3 can do 16T, ext2 probably should be able to as well.
>> There are still "int" block containers in the block allocation path
>> that need to be fixed up.
> 
> Yeah, but who wants to do 16TB e2fsck on every boot?  I think there
> needs to be some limits imposed for the sake of usability.

I figure this is in the fine tradition of "enough rope to hang oneself"

If you have 16T of filesystem you probably know enough to not hang 
yourself this way.

*shrug*

It's a bug, today.   If we need another change to limit ext2 to 500G or 
something, fine by me.  :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-20 17:10 [PATCH] fix ext2 allocator overflows above 31 bit blocks Eric Sandeen
2007-04-20 23:02 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-20 23:14   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-04-21  0:27     ` Mingming Cao
2007-04-21  0:43       ` Eric Sandeen

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