Re: file system size limits

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>No.  It's not an ext2 problem, and it's bad form to put safety checks
>at the wrong layer.  Invariably, that sort of magic test never gets

Agreed.

>You can put safety checks in in the kernel level of MD, and in the MD
>software tools; that should surely be enough.

I don't agree on this. I think the right place is the VFS layer in mount
and it's probably a one liner or so.

Andrea