I need to setup a 3.27TB ext3 filesystem using -i 1024 and -b 1024.
When I try to format this partition I get the "Filesystem too large."
error. Are there any plans to update these limits? are there any
patches already available that I can try out? Or am I just SOL here?
(vzbu2 ~)# fdisk -l /dev/etherd/e1.1
Disk /dev/etherd/e1.1: 3600.7 GB, 3600795892224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 437771 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/etherd/e1.1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
(vzbu2 ~)# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/lvg01/vz
VG Name lvg01
LV UUID CH5TEA-WC61-oSMX-olxz-sBTf-L1Ho-E1740u
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 3.27 TB
Current LE 858496
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0
mkfs.ext3 -i 1024 -b 1024 /dev/lvg01/vz
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
mkfs.ext3: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks
(8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
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Brandon Evans
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