On 10/3/11 1:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now. >> >> Anyone who wants to fiddle with large ext4 filesystems, have at >> it please! > > Is there any background information to this change that I can read? > > I created a 2**60 byte disk, partitioned it, and tried to create an > ext4 filesystem on it, but that doesn't work: heh; going for the gusto I see! Can we maybe start with a mere 500 terabytes? ;) > ><rescue> mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/vda1 > mke2fs 1.42-WIP (25-Sep-2011) > > Warning: the fs_type huge is not defined in mke2fs.conf Icky, but unrelated to below, I think > /dev/vda1: Cannot create filesystem with requested number of inodes while setting up superblock sounds like it calculated an inode ratio that put it over the 2^32 inode nr. limit. I'll look into it. Thanks, -Eric > ><rescue> parted /dev/vda print > Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk) > Disk /dev/vda: 1126TB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: gpt > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 32.8kB 1126TB 1126TB p1 > > Rich. > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
