diff --git a/fs/udf/super.c b/fs/udf/super.c
index df5287c5d659..6304e3c5c3d9 100644
--- a/fs/udf/super.c
+++ b/fs/udf/super.c
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ enum {
 #define UDF_MAX_LVID_NESTING 1000
 
 enum { UDF_MAX_LINKS = 0xffff };
+/*
+ * We limit filesize to 4TB. This is arbitrary as the on-disk format supports
+ * more but because the file space is described by a linked list of extents,
+ * each of which can have at most 1GB, the creation and handling of extents
+ * gets unusably slow beyond certain point...
+ */
+#define UDF_MAX_FILESIZE (1ULL << 42)
 
 /* These are the "meat" - everything else is stuffing */
 static int udf_fill_super(struct super_block *, void *, int);
@@ -2257,7 +2264,7 @@ static int udf_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *options, int silent)
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error_out;
 	}
-	sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
+	sb->s_maxbytes = UDF_MAX_FILESIZE;
 	sb->s_max_links = UDF_MAX_LINKS;
 	return 0;