linux-kernel - Re: RFC: kconfig option CONFIG_LBDAF should be auto-selected if EXT4 is chosen

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Message-ID: <508B9DF6.8080905@gmx.de>
Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:40:22 +0200
From:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig option CONFIG_LBDAF should be auto-selected if EXT4
 is chosen

On 10/27/2012 10:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:00:46AM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>>
>> otherwise booting an EXT4 image won't work b/c the root fs can't be
>> mounted read-write - and as a side effect no syslog messages might
>> point the user to this issue (at least in my setup) ...
> 
> This is only a problem on 32-bit architectues. and it's actually
> documented in the Kconfig help message, and it's enabled by default.
> So someone would have had to have gone out of their way to turn off
> CONFIG_LBDAF.  This is the first time I've heard of someone getting
> surprised by this; do you know how CONFIG_LBDAF got disabled?  Did you
> just disable it without reading the help message?

When I use the attached UML config and run "$>make ARCH=um menuconfig"
to select EXT4, then CONFIG_LBDAF is not selected automatically.

> What we might be able to do instead is to allow the mount to succeed,
> but to simply fail any attempts to open(2) or stat(2) files larger
> than 2TB with an EFBIG error.

That would be a cool idea.

-- 
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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