Re: [UPDATE][12/24]ext3 enlarge blocksize

Johann Lombardi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Message-ID <20060605131311.GB2606@chiva>
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:00:32AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On May 25, 2006  21:49 +0900, [email protected] wrote:
> > @@ -1463,11 +1463,17 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super
> > +	if (blocksize > PAGE_SIZE) {
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: cannot mount filesystem with "
> > +		       "blocksize %u larger than PAGE_SIZE %u on %s\n",
> > +		       blocksize, PAGE_SIZE, sb->s_id);
> > +		goto failed_mount;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	if (blocksize < EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE ||
> > -	    blocksize > EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE) {
> > +	    blocksize > EXT3_EXTENDED_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE) {
> 
> We may as well just change EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE to be 65536, because no other
> code uses this value.  It is already 65536 in the e2fsprogs.

AFAICS, ext3_dir_entry_2->rec_len will overflow with a 64kB blocksize.
Do you know how ext2 handles this?

Cheers,

Johann
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