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TAKE - Clean up large file handling.

Subject: TAKE - Clean up large file handling.
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:09:30 -0600
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Although XFS can handle (2^63-1) file sizes, Linux can't.
The Linux VM uses a 32 bit page number index to index cache data, so 
2^32 * PAGE_SIZE is as big as you can go.  Define XFS_MAX_FILE_OFFSET
accordingly.

Having done that, XFS would still happily seek & truncate to greater
than that value; seek was fixed by using generic_file_llseek for
XFS's seek: method, and truncate was fixed by checking for an error
from inode_setattr() in linvfs_notify_change.


Date:  Tue Jan 22 11:03:35 PST 2002
Workarea:  stout.americas.sgi.com:/localhome/eric/2.4.x-xfs/workarea-reallyclean

The following file(s) were checked into:
  bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.4.x-xfs


Modid:  xfs-cmds:slinx:109992a
cmd/xfsprogs/include/xfs_inode.h - 1.11
        - Reduce XFS_MAX_FILE_OFFSET to something Linux can handle




Modid:  2.4.x-xfs:slinx:109992b
linux/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h - 1.152
        - Reduce XFS_MAX_FILE_OFFSET to something Linux can handle

linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_file.c - 1.57
        - Use generic_file_llseek for the seek: method 
          (default_llseek doesn't do size checking)

linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_iops.c - 1.119
        - Do error checking on inode_setattr() return



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