diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index fa1be1b304d1..47415398d56a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -1990,6 +1990,36 @@ static int ocfs2_setup_osb_uuid(struct ocfs2_super *osb, const unsigned char *uu
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* Make sure entire volume is addressable by our journal.  Requires
+   osb_clusters_at_boot to be valid and for the journal to have been
+   initialized by ocfs2_journal_init(). */
+static int ocfs2_journal_addressable(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
+{
+	int status = 0;
+	u64 max_block =
+		ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(osb->sb,
+					 osb->osb_clusters_at_boot) - 1;
+
+	/* 32-bit block number is always OK. */
+	if (max_block <= (u32)~0ULL)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* Volume is "huge", so see if our journal is new enough to
+	   support it. */
+	if (!(OCFS2_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(osb->sb,
+				       OCFS2_FEATURE_COMPAT_JBD2_SB) &&
+	      jbd2_journal_check_used_features(osb->journal->j_journal, 0, 0,
+					       JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT))) {
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "The journal cannot address the entire volume. "
+		     "Enable the 'block64' journal option with tunefs.ocfs2");
+		status = -EFBIG;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+ out:
+	return status;
+}
+
 static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
 				  struct buffer_head *bh,
 				  int sector_size,
@@ -2002,6 +2032,7 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
 	struct ocfs2_journal *journal;
 	__le32 uuid_net_key;
 	struct ocfs2_super *osb;
+	u64 total_blocks;
 
 	mlog_entry_void();
 
@@ -2214,11 +2245,15 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
-	if (ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(osb->sb, le32_to_cpu(di->i_clusters) - 1)
-	    > (u32)~0UL) {
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Volume might try to write to blocks beyond "
-		     "what jbd can address in 32 bits.\n");
-		status = -EINVAL;
+	total_blocks = ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(osb->sb,
+						le32_to_cpu(di->i_clusters));
+
+	status = generic_check_addressable(osb->sb->s_blocksize_bits,
+					   total_blocks);
+	if (status) {
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Volume too large "
+		     "to mount safely on this system");
+		status = -EFBIG;
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
@@ -2380,6 +2415,12 @@ static int ocfs2_check_volume(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 		goto finally;
 	}
 
+	/* Now that journal has been initialized, check to make sure
+	   entire volume is addressable. */
+	status = ocfs2_journal_addressable(osb);
+	if (status)
+		goto finally;
+
 	/* If the journal was unmounted cleanly then we don't want to
 	 * recover anything. Otherwise, journal_load will do that
 	 * dirty work for us :) */