Re: [PATCH] ext4: the _require checks for bigalloc need a larger fs size

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:27:13AM -0700, Vishal Verma wrote:
> _require_ext4_bigalloc and _require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc create a
> 200k fs, which causes dax to fail with block_size != PAGE_SIZE
> Increasing the fs size to 512m fixes this.

Just to elaborate on this ... DAX (as XIP before it) relies on a fs
block size == system page size; ie 4k for us.  With a 200k fs size limit,
mkfs refuses to create a filesystem with a 4k block size, so the check
fails, but for a bogus reason.

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