I'll try to look into this but just wanted to put it out there. After creating a 32T fs and filling it with 1T preallocated files, I get quite a lot of corruption; this wasn't really the test I wanted to do, I wanted to then remove a file with mostly high blocks, run fsstress, and test recovery :( # uname -r 3.4.0-rc4+ # truncate --size 32t imagefile2 # mkfs.ext4 -F imagefile2 mke2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012) ... # mount -o loop imagefile2 /mnt/scratch # for I in `seq 1 32`; do fallocate -l 1t /mnt/scratch/1tfile$I; done # umount /mnt/scratch # time e2fsck -fn imagefile2 e2fsck 1.42.3 (14-May-2012) <many many many lines snipped> Free blocks count wrong for group #131072 (0, counted=32768). Fix? no Free blocks count wrong for group #131073 (0, counted=32768). Fix? no Free blocks count wrong for group #131074 (0, counted=4164). Fix? no Free blocks count wrong (3, counted=4294967299). Fix? no imagefile2: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** imagefile2: 43/536870912 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 8589934589/8589934592 blocks real 27m40.133s user 27m12.886s sys 0m6.238s -- 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