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H A D | Kconfig | diff db29a6b49674085f136331014ba0eee249c16a2c Tue Apr 21 02:27:03 CDT 2009 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> block: enable by default support for large devices and files on 32-bit archs
Enable by default support for large devices and files (CONFIG_LBD):
- With 1TB disks being a commodity hardware it is quite easy to hit 2TB limitation while building RAIDs etc. and many distros have been using CONFIG_LBD=y by default already (at least Fedora 10 and openSUSE 11.1).
- This should also prevent a subtle ext4 filesystem compatibility issue: mke2fs.ext4 defaults to creating filesystems with huge_files feature enabled and such filesystems cannot be later mounted read-write on machines with CONFIG_LBD=n (it should be quite easy to hit this issue when trying to use filesystem created using distro kernel on system running the self-build kernel, think about USB disk enclosures & co.).
While at it:
- Clarify config option help text w.r.t. mounting ext4 filesystems (they can be mounted with CONFIG_LBD=n but in the read-only mode).
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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