12:16pm Eric Sandeen said:
The real limit, IIRC, is (2^32 - 1) blocks, or 4k shy of 16T for 4k blocks.
This is a little unfortunate since "lvcreate -L16T" is so handy, but it
won't mkfs properly. (ext3 should have the same limitation).
We should probably make mkfs just silently lop off one block if it
encounters a boundary condition like this ...
Ah, thanks Eric! That would be smart.
I'm trying to workaround, but...
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# mkfs.ext4 /dev/foo/bar $[2**32-1]
mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/phd/dc1a too big to be expressed in 32 bits
using a blocksize of 4096.
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/foo/bar 42
# mkfs.ext4
Usage: mkfs.ext4 [-c|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment-size]
[-i bytes-per-inode] [-I inode-size] [-J journal-options]
[-G meta group size] [-N number-of-inodes]
[-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os]
[-g blocks-per-group] [-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory]
[-O feature[,...]] [-r fs-revision] [-E extended-option[,...]]
[-T fs-type] [-jnqvFSV] device [blocks-count]
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It doesn't appear to support the blocks-count option anymore. :-( Or did
it ever?
../C
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