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Date:	Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:10:06 +0200
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext4: limit block allocations for	indirect-block
 files to < 2^32

On Sep 10, 2009  11:02 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This patch limits such allocations to < 232, and adds
> WARN_ONs (maybe should be BUG_ONs) if we do get blocks
> larger than that.

Given that this may corrupt the filesystem (e.g. block
2^32 turning into block 0 and overwriting the superblock)
I think a BUG_ON() is probably more appropriate.  This
should only happen with software bugs, so it is more
appropriate than ext4_error() I think.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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