On Sep 10, 2009 23:51 +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Well, it may depend a lot on which inodes are in use. That will set the > goal block, and may prevent any above-16TB allocations. Either you could > fill the bitmaps with 0xff (and zero the free blocks counters, to avoid > problems with mballoc), or actually fill the first 16TB of the filesystem. Or, just start creating top-level directories until you get one past 16TB and use that for your test... We have a patch for allowing a goal inode to be specified, and it might make sense to add a mount option to allow setting the inode goal for testing... Hey, look, I even posted that patch, I now recall: http://osdir.com/ml/linux-ext4/2009-06/msg00233.html Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, 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
