On 07/18/2017 02:17 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Jul 16, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I asked this question on linux-ext3 and apparently I cannot post it there as moderator has to approve it, and he is neither approving or disapproving my message. May be the list is dormant now and everything happens here. Any way here is my question.
The linux-ext3 list is obsolete, linux-ext4 is the right list for such questions.
Is there a kernel version restriction for 64bit ext4 FS creation/use? Google does not seem to find any info on this. I have mythbuntu 14.04 distro that has
zym [rramesh] 473 > uname -a
Linux zym 3.13.0-119-generic #166-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 3 12:18:55 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Can I create a 64bit ext4 under this kernel and mount/use?
The 64bit feature flag was only set for large filesystems (> 16TB) in the past,
but I believe that this is the default for all filesystems since e2fsprogs-1.43.
BTW, my resize2fs cannot grow the file system beyond 16TB. I assume this is due to current FS being 32bit. I need to make it 64bit. What is the best way to go about doing this *on my distro*?
zym [rramesh] 474 > resize2fs
resize2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
Usage: resize2fs [-d debug_flags] [-f] [-F] [-M] [-P] [-p] device [new_size]
This is fairly old. 1.42.13 is probably the better version for you to use.
I believe that 1.43 also has support for enabling the 64bit feature on an
existing filesystem.
Cheers, Andreas
Thanks. I can't update e2fsprogs to 1.43 without knowing that the file
system it creates can be mounted on my kernel. I am with ubuntu 14.04
which only has these. I could manually download and build from source or
install from another repository only if I know my kernel will support
it. So, I really need to know if linux 3.13 support ext4-64bit.
Ramesh
