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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:07:55 +0300 From: "Amir G." <amir73il@...rs.sourceforge.net> To: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...cle.com> Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow internal journal size 2GB or larger On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...cle.com> wrote: > > The current libext2fs and e2fsck code does not handle an internal journal inode size larger than 2GB because of 32-bit overflow. > I was surprised to see this problem description, since I have been using a 3GB journal with Next3 for a while and never observed this problem reported by fsck. Finally, I realized that the problem only happens when the journal inode size is larger than 4GB. Other than that, patch looks fine to me :-) Amir. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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