linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/74] mke2fs: load configfile blocksize setting before 64bit checks

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Date:	Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:27:08 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/74] mke2fs: load configfile blocksize setting before
 64bit checks

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:18:37PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> mke2fs has a series of checks to ensure that we don't create a
> filesystem too big for its blocksize -- if auto-64bit is on, then it
> turns on 64bit; otherwise it complains.  Unfortunately, it performs
> these checks before looking in mke2fs.conf for a blocksize, which
> means that the checks are incorrect if the user specifies a non-4096
> blocksize in the config file and says nothing on the command line.
> The bug also has the effect of mandating a 4k block size on any block
> device larger than 4T in that situation.  Therefore, read the block
> size from the config file before performing the 64bit checks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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