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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix ext2 allocator overflows above 31 bit blocks
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2007 12:10 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> If ext3 can do 16T, ext2 probably should be able to as well.
>> There are still "int" block containers in the block allocation path
>> that need to be fixed up.
>
> Yeah, but who wants to do 16TB e2fsck on every boot? I think there
> needs to be some limits imposed for the sake of usability.

I figure this is in the fine tradition of "enough rope to hang oneself"

If you have 16T of filesystem you probably know enough to not hang
yourself this way.

*shrug*

It's a bug, today. If we need another change to limit ext2 to 500G or
something, fine by me. :)

-Eric
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