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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-07-05 16:35:09 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-07-05 16:35:09 +0200
commit0c9e98af5e94877ad3b1af2c0f39b2376a462ded (patch)
treeacbab68f802fadbff85590c139c87dc199bb465d /fs/ext4/super.c
parentstaging: remove obsoleted CS5535/CS5536 GPIO driver (diff)
parentLinux 3.0-rc6 (diff)
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Merge Linux 3.0-rc6 into staging-next
This handles the merge conflicts with the drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig file due to changes on the two different branches. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index cc5c157aa11d..9ea71aa864b3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2243,6 +2243,12 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
* in the vfs. ext4 inode has 48 bits of i_block in fsblock units,
* so that won't be a limiting factor.
*
+ * However there is other limiting factor. We do store extents in the form
+ * of starting block and length, hence the resulting length of the extent
+ * covering maximum file size must fit into on-disk format containers as
+ * well. Given that length is always by 1 unit bigger than max unit (because
+ * we count 0 as well) we have to lower the s_maxbytes by one fs block.
+ *
* Note, this does *not* consider any metadata overhead for vfs i_blocks.
*/
static loff_t ext4_max_size(int blkbits, int has_huge_files)
@@ -2264,10 +2270,13 @@ static loff_t ext4_max_size(int blkbits, int has_huge_files)
upper_limit <<= blkbits;
}
- /* 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block */
- res = 1LL << 32;
+ /*
+ * 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block. We lower the maxbytes
+ * by one fs block, so ee_len can cover the extent of maximum file
+ * size
+ */
+ res = (1LL << 32) - 1;
res <<= blkbits;
- res -= 1;
/* Sanity check against vm- & vfs- imposed limits */
if (res > upper_limit)