On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:30:37 +0000, Srivathsa Dara wrote:
> According to the mke2fs man page, the supported cluster-size values
> for an ext4 filesystem are 2048 to 256M bytes. However, this is not
> the case.
>
> When mkfs is run to create a filesystem with following specifications:
> * 1k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 32M
> * 2k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 64M
> * 4k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 128M
> mkfs fails with "Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while trying
> to create journal" error. In general, when the cluster-size to blocksize
> ratio is greater than 32k, mkfs fails with this error.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] e2fsprogs: misc/mke2fs.8.in: Correct valid cluster-size values
commit: 87cbb381f2e2fb9aab316187a70acca9f6d5061b
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
