* in the vfs. ext4 inode has 48 bits of i_block in fsblock units,
* so that won't be a limiting factor.
*
+ * However there is other limiting factor. We do store extents in the form
+ * of starting block and length, hence the resulting length of the extent
+ * covering maximum file size must fit into on-disk format containers as
+ * well. Given that length is always by 1 unit bigger than max unit (because
+ * we count 0 as well) we have to lower the s_maxbytes by one fs block.
+ *
* Note, this does *not* consider any metadata overhead for vfs i_blocks.
*/
static loff_t ext4_max_size(int blkbits, int has_huge_files)
upper_limit <<= blkbits;
}
- /* 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block */
- res = 1LL << 32;
+ /*
+ * 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block. We lower the maxbytes
+ * by one fs block, so ee_len can cover the extent of maximum file
+ * size
+ */
+ res = (1LL << 32) - 1;
res <<= blkbits;
- res -= 1;
/* Sanity check against vm- & vfs- imposed limits */
if (res > upper_limit)