On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:55:59PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > Does this mean the on-disk-format is independent of the machine word > size? Yep. > Just out of interest, what will happen, if a 32bit cluster member > tries to join/mount a too-large fs? Will the operation fail or will > there be silent data corruption? Yeah, right now, mounting a too-large filesystem will corrupt the filesystem when you write past the 16TB boundary. I'll work on getting mkfs to write a flag into the superblock that the filesystem will check on mount. -- Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx>