[PATCH] Fix Raid5/6 above 2 Terabytes
From: Evan Felix <evan.felix@pnl.gov>
Here is a patch that fixes a major issue in the raid5/6 code. It seems
that the code:
logical_sector = bi->bi_sector & ~(STRIPE_SECTORS-1);
(sector_t) = (sector_t) & (constant)
that the right side of the & does not get extended correctly when the
constant is promoted to the sector_t type. I have CONFIG_LBD turned on so
sector_t should be 64bits wide. This fails to properly mask the value of
4294967296 (2TB/512) to
4294967296. in my case it was coming out 0. this
cause the loop following this code to read from 0 to
4294967296 blocks so
it could write one character.
As you might imagine this makes a format of a 3.5TB filesystem take a very
long time.