On 2011-07-19, at 11:38 PM, hao.bigrat@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > After creating more than 1000 files in root directory on ext4 of bigalloc, > the kernel reports many error messages like: > > [181126.730911] EXT4-fs error (device sda4): ext4_ind_map_blocks:1015: inode #2: comm falloc: Can't allocate blocks for non-extent mapped inodes with bigalloc > [181126.735945] EXT4-fs error (device sda4): ext4_ind_map_blocks:1015: inode #2: comm falloc: Can't allocate blocks for non-extent mapped inodes with bigalloc > > because the root inode of a new ext4 filesystem is type of block-mapped > even use mke2fs with "-O extent,bigalloc". That reminds me of a question I had with bigalloc - are htree directories supported with bigalloc? For a 1MB bigalloc chunksize it would mean a fanout of 256k, or a maximum directory size of 256GB with only a single level. Any thoughts about increasing the directory size beyond 2GB? Cheers, Andeas-- 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
