On Wed, 09 May 2007 16:57:01 +0200 Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jose R. Santos wrote: > > I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit > > architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are > > represented using "unsigned long". I'm trying to get access to a 64bit > > arch to confirm this. > > > > -JRS > > > Oh, I didn't catch that you use a 32-bit system. > On 32-bit architectures, the page cache index size imposes a 16TB limit > on the filesystem size (with 4KB blocksize). So you need a 64-bit system > for your test. > Valérie Thanks for the info. Would the page cache limitation also restrict debugfs and dumpe2fs from reading information on a large filesystem? Would a check need to be in place to limit the use of e2fsprog on 32bit architectures using large block devices. -JRS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
