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Message-ID: <20141215015557.GA19946@thunk.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:55:57 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: badblocks: Limit maximum number of bad blocks
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:03:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently maximum number of bad blocks is not limited in any way.
> However our code can really handle at most INT_MAX/2 bad blocks (for
> larger numbers binary search indexes start overflowing). So report
> number of bad blocks is just too big instead of plain segfaulting.
>
> It won't be too hard to raise the limit but I don't think there's any
> real use for disks with over 1 billion of bad blocks...
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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