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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:36:20 +0800
From:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] libext2fs: avoid 32-bit overflow in
 ext2fs_initialize with a 512M cluster size

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:33:31PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 07:37:12PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > If the user attemps to create a 512MB cluster, we need to adjust the
> > defaults to avoid a 32-bit overflow of s_blocks_per_group.  Also check
> > to make sure that the caller of ext2fs_initialize() has not given a
> > value of s_clusters_per_group that would result in an overflow of
> > s_blocks_per_group.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> 
> The patch itself looks good to me.  Feel free to add:
> Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>

Sorry, forgot to say that '-C' option in manpage will need to be modified
from 256MB to 512MB if this patch is applied.

Thanks,
                                                - Zheng
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