From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mke2fs: use ext2fs_open_file() in check_plausibility()
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:56:23 -0400
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:47:44PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The commit:
> 
> 802146c mke2fs: create a regular file if necessary
> 
> caused a regression on 32-bit machines; the open() fails if
> the file size is > 4G.
> 
> Using ext2fs_open_file() fixes it.
> 
> Resolves: Red Hat Bugzilla #1099892
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted