[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ext3/ext4: Factor out disk addressability check

[Joel Becker]

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 at gmail.com>

ext4/jbd2 folks,
	I would like to push these upstream.  Should they go through
ocfs2.git or would you rather take them via your trees?

Joel

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