On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:50:39PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > > FWIW, I was trying to create an ext4 file system with more than 2^32 > blocks to demonstrate a parted bug fix, but with the particular device > I was using, I couldn't even create one with 2^31-1 blocks. > > When I try to create an ext4 file system specifying both block size and > the number of blocks, the size of the underlying device should not matter, > as long as it is large enough. Oops, my fault. I fixed the case where the device was exactly 16TB (as in created via lvcreate --size 16TB, but the fix was very minimal, since it was just before a maintenance release. I didn't consider (or test) the case where the device was larger than or equal to 2*32 blocks (given a specified blocksize, or 4k if no blocksize was specified), and an explicit block size less than 2*32 was specified. I'll put it on my todo list to fix for e2fsprogs 1.41.5. - Ted -- 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
