On Feb 09, 2003 11:08 +0100, Stephan van Hienen wrote: > makes me wonder if this can have todo with the lbd (to allow 2TB+ devices) > patch ? or is this something else? > (if it can be related to the lbd patch, i will remove 2 hd's from the > array (but i don't prefer this option)) Now that you mention this, I believe that there were som fixes to the ext2/3 code to not overflow some calcs, but I don't recall the specifics. It sure seems unusual to have such easy-to-reproduce errors. > mke2fs -j -m 0 -b 4096 -i 4096 -R stride=16 Do you expect to have so many small files in this huge filesystem? Basically, the "-i" parameter is telling mke2fs what you think the average file size will be, so 4kB is very small. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html