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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: "- 8" in EXT2_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:50:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E931453.3010002@redhat.com> (raw)

When looking at the maximal filesystem size issue, I found myself
wondering what the "- 8" is in here, it's not commented
or documented anywhere:

#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(s)    (((1 << 16) - 8) *      \
                                          (EXT2_CLUSTER_SIZE(s) / \
                                           EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(s)))


(pre-bigalloc, it was just ((1 << 16) - 8) )

Anyone know?

-Eric


             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 15:50 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2011-10-10 18:43 ` "- 8" in EXT2_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP Eric Sandeen
2011-10-10 20:11   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-10-10 20:34     ` Eric Sandeen

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