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From: "Takashi Sato" <sho@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>
To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Badari Pulavarty" <pbadari@gmail.com>,
	"lkml" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ext2-devel" <Ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:17:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e801c64a8e$4f5a3080$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060318101102.GZ30801@schatzie.adilger.int>

Hi,

> On Mar 18, 2006  14:57 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
>> >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.
> 
> Oh, using -F for this is highly dangerous.  That would allow mke2fs to
> run on e.g. a mounted filesystem or something.  Instead use an option
> like "-E 16tb" or something.

I would like to integrate the function into new option "-O large_block"
in my mail "[PATCH 1/4] ext2/3: Extends the max file size(ext2 in kernel)".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-18 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-15 12:39 [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1 blocks(e2fsprogs) Takashi Sato
2006-03-17 21:19 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-18  5:57   ` [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs) Takashi Sato
2006-03-18 10:11     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-03-18 12:24       ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-03-18 13:17       ` Takashi Sato [this message]
2006-03-22 23:45     ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-23 18:16       ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-24  1:54         ` [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs) Takashi Sato
2006-03-19  2:44 ` [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support 2^32-1 blocks(e2fsprogs) Theodore Ts'o

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