On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 05:19:13PM +0100, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> You use these disks for a few weeks, then your Alpha breaks down. You
> decide to attach these disks to your x86 computer.
> Now the RAID tools MUST NOT mount the 4 TB disk array, or you'll destroy
> your data.
> [the calculation
> bh[i]->b_rsector = bh[i]->b_blocknr*(bh[i]->b_size>>9);
> in ll_rw_blk.c would overflow]
>
> That's an MD (and block devlice layer) problem, not an ext2 problem.
> Granted, the customer won't care much whose problem it is; he just
> doesn't want his data trashed. It shouldn't be that hard to fix,
> though.
I think it would require changes in all device drivers, which is a
"hard fix".
But these changes will be needed soon anyways for highmem-without-bouncebuffers
support.
-Andi
--
This is like TV. I don't like TV.
