On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:38:42PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: > From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > current mkfs.ext4 fails if we tried with the following parameters. > mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -N 16 -O ^has_journal,^resize_inode,^uninit_bg,extent,meta_bg -b 1024 /dev/sdb3 > It will cause segfault, but it is caused by another issue. See my patch > "mke2fs: Avoid segmentation fault in ext2fs_alloc_generic_bmap". And > with that patch, the mkfs.ext4 will fail with the error: > /dev/sdb3: Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock > > The reason is that in ext2fs_initialize, we align s_inodes_per_group > to 8, but fails to consider the case that s_inodes_per_group < 8. > So make at least 8 inodes for s_inodes_per_group. > > Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, I've added this to the "next" branch of e2fsprogs. - 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
