On Thu 04-10-07 13:12:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:35:46 -0700 > Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ext2: Avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size > > > > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > > > With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not fit > > 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. > > Also, I'm planing on merging the ext2 reservations code into 2.6.24, so if > we're aiming for complete support of 64k blocksize in 2.6.24's ext2, > additional testing and checking will be needed. OK, I'll fixup those rejects and send a new patch. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
