On 2010-07-11, at 11:04, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> +/* Check to make sure entire volume is addressable on this system.
> + Requires osb_clusters_at_boot to be valid and for the journal to
> + have been initialized by ocfs2_journal_init(). */
> +static int ocfs2_check_addressable(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
> +{
> + /* Absolute addressability check (borrowed from ext4/super.c) */
> + if ((max_block >
> + (sector_t)(~0LL) >> (osb->sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9)) ||
> + (max_block > (pgoff_t)(~0LL) >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT -
> + osb->sb->s_blocksize_bits))) {
> + mlog(ML_ERROR, "Volume too large "
> + "to mount safely on this system");
> + status = -EFBIG;
> + goto out;
> + }
This hunk of code is actually in several filesystems. It wouldn't be a bad idea to make it a library function that can be called by the filesystem to check the kernel page cache and block layer can handle these large filesystems.
Cheers, Andreas
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