From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ramfs lfs limit
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:56:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040521085630.GO3044@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040521074112.GA29558@havoc.gtf.org>
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:41:12AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:37:02AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > this fixes the 2G limit on ramfs
> >
> > --- sles/fs/ramfs/inode.c.~1~ 2003-10-31 05:54:29.000000000 +0100
> > +++ sles/fs/ramfs/inode.c 2004-05-21 07:55:07.394369104 +0200
> > @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int ramfs_fill_super(struct super
> > struct inode * inode;
> > struct dentry * root;
> >
> > + sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
>
>
> Why don't we change the default in alloc_super() instead?
>
> We should not default to "lame" :)
we default to "lame" to protect the lame filesystems from
malfunctioning ;), this was extremely intentional in the early days, now
less but it's still intentional. We may change that someday but
defaulting to safe when there's no downside doesn't sound that urgent to
change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-21 7:37 ramfs lfs limit Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-21 7:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-21 8:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-05-21 8:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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