Re: [PATCH] fix ext2 allocator overflows above 31 bit blocks

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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.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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