Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] befs: Large file support and a superblock check fix

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:17:11 +0100, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Two small befs fixes I originally sent in 2019 [1][2], which never got
> picked up. Rebased onto v7.3 and resent as v2.
> 
> Patch 1 lets befs serve files larger than 2GiB; the on-disk format and
> the implementation already handle 64-bit file sizes, only s_maxbytes was
> never raised from the MAX_NON_LFS default.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-7.5.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.5.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-7.5.misc

[1/2] befs: Allow file sizes beyond 2GiB
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/cd1fb89d09f9
[2/2] befs: Fix allocation group consistency check
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/f51cd637b410