From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: 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 17:02:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070420230208.GU5967@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4628F3ED.9040101@redhat.com>
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.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-20 17:10 Eric Sandeen
2007-04-20 23:02 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-04-20 23:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-21 0:27 ` Mingming Cao
2007-04-21 0:43 ` Eric Sandeen
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