On Oct 11, 2007 12:26 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: > >On Oct 10, 2007 22:07 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > >>I am hitting this with the below config > >> > >>mke2fs -j -I 256 -O lazy_bg $dev > > > >Note that "-O lazy_bg" has nothing really to do with the uninit_groups > >feature. Also, if you don't have the CFS e2fsprogs patches for > >uninit_groups then mke2fs creates an invalid filesystem if the journal is > >large (this was an unrelated bug we fixed while testing uninit_groups). > >Try running e2fsck right after the above mke2fs and you will likely > >see errors. > > > > e2fsprogs found at > > ftp://ftp.clusterfs.com/pub/lustre/other/e2fsprogs > > sets unint with -O lazy_bg. Is there any other option that i can use to set > the uninit block group feature ? Yes, "-O uninit_groups". Note that while "-O lazy_bg" does set the UNINIT flags on the groups (this is a COMPAT feature that marks all of the groups full in the group descriptors), it does NOT handle the inode high watermark or in-kernel initialization of the bitmaps. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
