I had to use a slightly different patch for 2.6.28-git7... block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index ac0956f..0cbb3b8 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ config LBD This option also enables support for single files larger than 2TB. + The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in + order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature + enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount any filesystems + that use the huge_file feature, which is enabled by default + by mke2fs.ext4. The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature. + If unsure, say N. config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE -- 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