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Date:	Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:23:03 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	coly.li@...e.de
Cc:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eelis <opensuse.org@...tacts.eelis.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate

On 2010-04-29, at 00:13, Coly Li wrote:
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Let individual file system decide if it supports
>> +		 * preallocation for directories or not.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (offset > inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes)
>> +			return -EFBIG;
> 
> For file systems support online-resize, like ext4 and ocfs2, should we also need a locking to protect inode->i_sb->s_mabytes ?

s_maxbytes is the maximum theoretical single file size, and has nothing to do with the size of the filesystem.

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

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