On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-07-11, at 11:04, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> >
>> +     /* Absolute addressability check (borrowed from ext4/super.c) */
>> +     if ((max_block >
>> +          (sector_t)(~0LL) >> (osb->sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9)) ||
>> +         (max_block > (pgoff_t)(~0LL) >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT -
>> +                                          osb->sb->s_blocksize_bits))) {
>> +             mlog(ML_ERROR, "Volume too large "
>> +                  "to mount safely on this system");
>> +             status = -EFBIG;
>> +             goto out;
>> +     }
>
> This hunk of code is actually in several filesystems.  It wouldn't be a bad 
> idea to make it a library function that can be called by the filesystem to 
> check the kernel page cache and block layer can handle these large 
> filesystems.

True, but some of them do it differently (e.g. see the #if switch in
xfs_sb_validate_fsb_count).  Tracking down all variants and changing
them is a much larger task than my simple patch.

Are you suggesting I need to do this before my patch is accepted at
all?  Or is this a refactoring that can happen later?

 - Pat

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