Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:32:19 -0400 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ?? |
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On Jul 18, 2009 16:21 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > We don't have to rewrite fsck; most of the framework for supporting an > > run-length-conding for compressed bitmaps is already in patches that > > add > 32-bit block numbers to e2fsprogs; we've just been more focused > > on getting 64-bit block numbers support merged than implementing > > compressed bitmaps, but it's only one file that would need to be > > added, and we might be able to steal the compressed bitmap support > > from xfsprogs --- which does this already. > > There are regular reports of xfs_repair failing on 32bit, > even on volumes far smaller than 16TB.
It's a good thing we have ext4 then :-).
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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