Debian Bug report logs - #550010
hfsplus corrupts filesystems >2TB

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Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64; Maintainer for linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 is (unknown);

Reported by: Marc Tamsky <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:36:02 UTC

Severity: critical

Found in version linux-2.6/2.6.26-13

Fixed in versions linux-2.6/2.6.31-1~experimental.2, linux-2.6/2.6.26-20

Done: dann frazier <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:27 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:37:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This is my suggested change, so far only compile-tested:
> > 
> > --- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
> > +++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
> > @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@
> >  
> >  	if (hfsplus_get_last_session(sb, &part_start, &part_size))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> > +	if (part_start + part_size >= 0x100000000) {
> > +		pr_err("hfs: volumes larger than 2TB are not supported yet\n");
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +	}
> 
> minor point, but maybe s/hfs/hfsplus/ ?
[...]

This is consistent with other log messages from hfsplus.  While I think
the prefix *should* be "hfsplus: ", it seemed to me that it would be
worse to be inconsistent.  Also, the original HFS is intrinsically
limited to 2TB so this message is true for both of them.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

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