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Commit bf43d84b authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: reject too-large filesystems on 32-bit kernels



ext4 will happily mount a > 16T filesystem on a 32-bit box, but
this is not safe; writes to the block device will wrap past 16T
and the page cache can't index past 16T (232 index * 4k pages).

Adding another test to the existing "too many sectors" test
should do the trick.

Add a comment, a relevant return value, and fix the reference
to the CONFIG_LBD(AF) option as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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