Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:40:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix page cache limit wrapping in filesystems |
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Several file systems in tree that nominally support files >2GB set their > s_maxbytes value to ~0ULL. This has the nasty side effect on 32bit machines > that when a file write reaches the page cache limit (e.g. 2^43) it'll silently > wrap and destroy data at the beginning of the file. > > This patch changes the file systems in question to fill in a proper limit. > > I also have an alternate patch that adds a check for this generically > in super.c, but preliminary comments from Al suggested that he prefered > to do it in the file systems, so it is done this way way. > > Patch for 2.5.4pre1. Please consider applying.
Looks OK.
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