Messages in this thread | | | From | "Takashi Sato" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs) | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:57:47 +0900 |
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Hi,
> Hi, > > Few comments on the patches: > > 1) Both kernel patch and e2fsprogs doesn't seem to apply cleanly for > the versions you mentioned. I had to fix few rejects.
Sorry. My patches were corrupted because my poor mailer had removed spaces in the patch. I will take care of it when I update this patch.
> 2) I am still not able to make filesystem bigger than 8TB with your > patch. I get following message. > > # fdisk -l /dev/md0 > > Disk /dev/md0: 10479.7 GB, 10479753756672 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, -1736433664 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes > > > elm3b29:~/e2fsprogs-1.38/misc # ./mke2fs /dev/md0 > mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks > (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported. > > When I try to create "ext3":
As I said in my previous mail, You should specify -F option to create ext2/3 which has more than 2**31-1 blocks. It is because of the compatibility.
> elm3b29:~/e2fsprogs-1.38/misc # ./mke2fs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > mke2fs: invalid blocks count - /dev/md0 > > Were you able to test these changes ?
You should specify -j option to create ext3 as below.
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