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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: max file size for ext3
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:00:46 -0500
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Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> I also think hardcoding 4k block size is not correct. I have the below
> patch pending with large file size.

Sounds much better to me.  I think it also needs to be limited so that
it doesn't exceed what the pagecache can address, i.e. 2^32 * PAGE_SIZE
- this will especially come into play w/ the large blocks, right?

-Eric