Re: ramfs lfs limit

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 03:11:00 EST



* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> this fixes the 2G limit on ramfs
>
> --- sles/fs/ramfs/inode.c.~1~ 2003-10-31 05:54:29.000000000 +0100
> +++ sles/fs/ramfs/inode.c 2004-05-21 07:55:07.394369104 +0200
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int ramfs_fill_super(struct super
> struct inode * inode;
> struct dentry * root;
>
> + sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
> sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
> sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> sb->s_magic = RAMFS_MAGIC;

yep - fixed this for RHEL3 half a year ago but forgot about it. It works
well, people are using multi-GB ramfs instances without problems.

Ingo
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