--- /dev/null
+diff -r -u linux-stage.orig/fs/ext4/super.c linux-stage/fs/ext4/super.c
+--- linux-stage.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2012-12-31 12:55:18.000000000 -0500
++++ linux-stage/fs/ext4/super.c 2012-12-31 12:56:14.000000000 -0500
+@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
+ static struct mutex ext4_li_mtx;
+ static struct ext4_features *ext4_feat;
+
++static int force_over_128tb;
++
+ static int ext4_load_journal(struct super_block *, struct ext4_super_block *,
+ unsigned long journal_devnum);
+ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync);
+@@ -1298,7 +1300,7 @@
+ Opt_nomblk_io_submit, Opt_block_validity, Opt_noblock_validity,
+ Opt_inode_readahead_blks, Opt_journal_ioprio,
+ Opt_dioread_nolock, Opt_dioread_lock,
+- Opt_mballoc, Opt_bigendian_extents,
++ Opt_mballoc, Opt_bigendian_extents, Opt_force_over_128tb,
+ Opt_discard, Opt_nodiscard, Opt_init_itable, Opt_noinit_itable,
+ };
+
+@@ -1374,6 +1376,7 @@
+ {Opt_dioread_nolock, "dioread_nolock"},
+ {Opt_dioread_lock, "dioread_lock"},
+ {Opt_bigendian_extents, "bigendian_extents"},
++ {Opt_force_over_128tb, "force_over_128tb"},
+ {Opt_mballoc, "mballoc"},
+ {Opt_discard, "discard"},
+ {Opt_nodiscard, "nodiscard"},
+@@ -1879,6 +1882,9 @@
+ break;
+ case Opt_mballoc:
+ break;
++ case Opt_force_over_128tb:
++ force_over_128tb = 1;
++ break;
+ default:
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+ "Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" "
+@@ -3394,6 +3400,16 @@
+ goto failed_mount;
+ }
+
++ if (ext4_blocks_count(es) > (8ULL << 32)) {
++ if (force_over_128tb == 0) {
++ printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs does not support filesystems "
++ "greater than 128TB and can cause data corruption."
++ "Use \"force_over_128tb\" mount option to override."
++ "\n");
++ goto failed_mount;
++ }
++ }
++
+ if (EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) == 0)
+ goto cantfind_ext4;
+