Re: [PATCH] sector_t overflow in block layer
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: > > One extra suggestion that might be safe and acceptible all around is if > a device is larger than 2TB w/o a 64-bit sector_t that the block device > size itself be truncated in the kernel to 2TB-512. This at least prevents > userspace tools from trying to e.g. format a 3TB filesystem on a device > that will just corrupt the filesystem. 'twould be good if we could do something like that - doing it on every single IO submission in submit_bh() Just Feels Wrong. Also, there's always the option (or enhancement) of emitting lots of scary warnings and then just proceeding. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642