On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 03:27:46PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote: > The maximum file size that can be represented by the data fork extent counter > in the worst case occurs when all extents are 1 block in length and each block > is 1KB in size. > > With XFS_MAX_EXTCNT_DATA_FORK_SMALL representing maximum extent count and with > 1KB sized blocks, a file can reach upto, > (2^31) * 1KB = 2TB > > This is much larger than the theoretical maximum size of a directory > i.e. XFS_DIR2_SPACE_SIZE * 3 = ~96GB. > > Since a directory can never overflow its data fork extent counter, the xfs > kernel driver removed code which checked for such a situation before any > directory modification operation could be executed. Instead, the kernel driver > verifies the sanity of directory's data fork extent counter when the inode is > read from disk. > > This commit removes the test xfs/533 due to the reasons mentioned above. > > Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Chandan! Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
