Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0UIVHi16956 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:31:17 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (sgi-too.SGI.COM [204.94.211.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0UIVDd16934 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:31:13 -0800 Received: from zeus-e8.americas.sgi.com (zeus-e8.americas.sgi.com [128.162.8.103]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id JAA08986 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:29:01 -0800 (PST) mail_from (eric@sgi.com) Received: from daisy-e185.americas.sgi.com (daisy-e185.americas.sgi.com [128.162.185.214]) by zeus-e8.americas.sgi.com (SGI-SGI-8.9.3/americas-smart-nospam1.1) with ESMTP id LAA09261 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from stout.americas.sgi.com (stout.americas.sgi.com [128.162.187.5]) by daisy-e185.americas.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/SGI-server-1.7) with ESMTP id LAA48694 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0600 (CST) Received: by stout.americas.sgi.com (8.11.6/SGI-client-1.7) id g0UHTss08279; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0600 Message-Id: <200201301729.g0UHTss08279@stout.americas.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: TAKE - More conservative max file size. Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 547 Lines: 19 As Andi says, "it's generally safe to not challenge the mighty sign extension." :) So it's down to 8TiB files now on 4k page machines. (Again, this is a _Linux_ limitation, not XFS per se.) Date: Wed Jan 30 09:24:49 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: 2.4.x-xfs:slinx:110614a linux/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h - 1.153 - More conservative value for XFS_MAX_FILE_OFFSET - beware the sign extension