From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: "François Cami" <francois.cami@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <theotso@us.ibm.com>,
Martin Watson <mjwatsonuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28.7/ext2/e2fsprogs-1.41.3: apparently irreparable filesystem damage, filesystem not imageable
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:17:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc1zps3b.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312001156.004e775e@free.fr> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Cami's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:11:56 +0100")
On 11 Mar 2009, François Cami told this:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:52:15 +0000
> Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
>> What on earth is going on?
>
> AFAIK you are hitting the 16GB file size limit of a 1KB-block formatted
> ext{2,3} filesystem on /mnt/horizon/ .
Aha. I'd quite forgotten about that limit (normally I could go years
without writing files that large).
But 1Kb blocks? why the hell does it have 1Kb blocks, grumble grumble,
what idiot did that, this fs isn't a news spool (it was probably me in
the days before I realised what a performance hit non-page-sized blocks
incur).
... that's a bit annoying. Time to resize it down and make a new LV that
I can fit a copy of the errored fs onto (not that this will help until I
can make fsck work, but at least I can experiment with less worry).
So. No kernel bug, just a documented limit and extreme fsck
strangeness...
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 21:52 Nix
2009-03-11 23:11 ` François Cami
2009-03-11 23:17 ` Nix [this message]
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