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ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
commitc07651b556323e0e763c452587fe29d2b034b314
tree6cae1d3c9a63e1a5ba83639003af792591845347
parentdd919b9822c5fd9fd72f95a602440130297c3857
ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem

The block mapped inode format can address only blocks within 2**32. This
causes a number of issues, the biggest of which is that the block
allocator needs to be taught that certain inodes can not utilize block
numbers > 2**32.  So until this is fixed, it is simplest to fail
mounting of file systems with more than 2**32 blocks if the -o noextents
option is given.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/super.c