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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
    On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:40:44 -0600
    Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:

    > On Oct 04, 2007 13:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:35:46 -0700
    > > > ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
    > > >
    > > > into 16 bits we have for entry lenght. So we store 0xffff instead and
    > > > convert value when read from / written to disk.
    > >
    > > This patch clashes in non-trivial ways with
    > > ext2-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch and perhaps other things which are
    > > already queued for 2.6.24 inclusion, so I'll need to ask for an updated
    > > patch, please.
    >
    > If the rel_len overflow patch isn't going to make it, then we also need
    > to revert the EXT*_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE change to 65536. It would be possible
    > to allow this to be up to 32768 w/o the rec_len overflow fix however.
    >

    Ok, thanks, I dropped ext3-support-large-blocksize-up-to-pagesize.patch and
    ext2-support-large-blocksize-up-to-pagesize.patch.

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