On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > 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. Note that what might have corrupted your file system may be different from the reproduction case which you've sent (which I've also confirmed). There was a number of off-line resize bugs fixed between 1.42.6 and 1.42.7. In general, off-line resize has been a bit more problematic recently than on-line resize. (Although if you're using an older kernel, online resize didn't work when starting with a super-small file system and then grow it to something large.) Thanks for sending this bug report; we'll get right on it. Can you say a bit more about the resize2fs failure you had with your production file system? Was it a similar "start really small and grow very big" pattern? Or something else? - 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
