-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2012 11:50 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > fs metadata is mapped into an address space, IIRC, so can't be > addressed past 2^32 pages. Also, mkfs can't do buffered IO to the > device past 16T (it is writing to a device _file_) and ditto for > e2fsck. But the file is only used for open(), after that the IO is handled by the correct device driver, which handles 64 bit offsets ( when you have CONFIG_LBDAF on ). So if you can change the page cache index size ( and it doesn't blow up ) this should work fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPQrhrAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75yX8IAKNmJv0tH2CMWefUFV/4un0g NKU5L2uwuMmyAzVRUOv165d1KAJkNc0z3OLUyh3425yku6wQ4dDqqnWSHCIZHJs7 /d1ltEP1g/vhpM5keAwwWHfC7N2KL+FRyqze8YAe6Qx5GGEWlUOqK2ALSxtuL2Il TQ+lfLI9kAA5Ggtwf6mjjD/fKFTdJILQuZikxpJRfKasLg/4Y25LWdaPG8BOm78l qPxkazpmIG8HVFczHwVWpuu+xY8nAmgDdZCTJBFoK9xmBUO0kjzl8JlAl4ScaXdi v1793CSzev/2aIhEwXSK0HdI7e6KI4iT292/k4ryjfwJ+QX5L6eyfd4HlSVMM88= =IOG0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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