From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext3/ext4: Factor out disk addressability check Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:03:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20100812230331.GD22777@mail.oracle.com> References: <874ofr2myq.fsf@patl.com> <20100812174215.GC6561@mail.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Ted Ts'o" , Jan Kara , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.ker Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100812174215.GC6561@mail.oracle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ocfs2-devel-bounces@oss.oracle.com Errors-To: ocfs2-devel-bounces@oss.oracle.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:42:16AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:03:41PM -0700, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > As part of adding support for OCFS2 to mount huge volumes, we need to > > check that the sector_t and page cache of the system are capable of > > addressing the entire volume. > > > > An identical check already appears in ext3 and ext4. This patch moves > > the addressability check into its own function in fs/libfs.c and > > modifies ext3 and ext4 to invoke it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Patrick LoPresti > > Dear ext3/4 folks, > I've pushed this patch to the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git. > I'm ready to send it to Linus, But I need your OK. To be specific, I would like an Acked-by. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #456 "Send your loved one flowers. Think of a reason later." Joel Becker Consulting Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127