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