From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ext3/ext4: Factor out disk
 addressability check
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:39:18 -0400
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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 <lopresti@gmail.com>
> 
> 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.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

for the ext4 bits.

(Sorry for not responding earlier to some of these patches.  The fact
that the merge window overlapped with LinuxCon and the Linux
Storage/Filesystem workshop has been quite stressful/tiring for some
of us....)

					- Ted