On 3/27/13 10:44 PM, John Jolly wrote: > All, > > I recently had a major data loss when expanding an LVM logical volume > past 2TB in size. I have preserved the 2.25TB just in case I might be > able to recover some data. But this backup is not my reason for > writing. > > I have done several tests and these are the results. First the error > condition, where I create a 1GB file system, expand the volume to 2TB, > resize the file system and have it become corrupted: I checked the recent code in the master & pu branches of git, and the same problem persists. ... > I know it is unusual to start so small and expand like this, but I > doubt I am the only one to have experienced this. How could I have > prepared my small 1GB file system so that it would be able to handle > an expansion past 2TB? Any help would be appreciated. not sure; you haven't done anything wrong, this simply looks like a resize bug, of which there have been a few lately I'm afraid. -Eric > Regards, > -- > John Jolly - john.jolly@xxxxxxxxx - http://john.jolly.name > -- > 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 > -- 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
