Eric Sandeen wrote: > I have a bug saying hey, I can't grow my filesystem on a 16T device, and > it's because really we can only go to (2^32)-1 blocks, not (2^32)... > > I was going to just silently round down by a block, because for example > LVM makes it *very* easy to make exactly 16T devices; dropping a block > at mkfs/growfs time seems reasonable to me. > > So that led me to ext2fs_get_device_size, and I see it actually has the > maximum allowable filesystem size encoded in it, and you get EFBIG if > it's bigger. Actually I guess it's looking at the largest number a blk_t can hold, but I think the same principle applies. Maybe it's not a big deal today... -Eric - 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
