linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix large file support

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Message-ID: <11836.1574351749@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:55:49 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, marc.dionne@...istor.com,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix large file support

Hi Linus,

> By default s_maxbytes is set to MAX_NON_LFS, which limits the usable
> file size to 2GB, enforced by the vfs.

Note that this isn't fixing a critical failure, so you might want to punt it
to the next cycle.

David