Am Montag, 11. März 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Montag, 11. März 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > Am Montag, 11. März 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > > 2) Create a insanely big sparse file > > > > > > merkaba:~> truncate -s1E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img > > > merkaba:~> ls -lh /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,0E Mär 11 22:37 /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img > > > > > > (No, this won´t work with Ext4.) > > > > Okay, you can´t go beyond 8 EiB for a single file which is about what I > > > have read somewhere: > […] > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s7E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> LANG=C truncate -s8E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img > > truncate: invalid number '8E': Value too large for defined data type > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit#1> ls -lh > > insgesamt 0 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:49 evenmorecrazy.img > > > > So so tests stops there, until you concatenate two of those files with > > LVM or SoftRAID 0 (if that works). Like this (I just had to try it): > > > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> ls -lh > > insgesamt 0 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:49 evenmorecrazy.img > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:52 evenmorecrazy.img2 > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> losetup /dev/loop0 evenmorecrazy.img > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> losetup /dev/loop1 evenmorecrazy.img2 > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> pvcreate /dev/loop0 > > > > Physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> pvcreate /dev/loop1 > > > > Physical volume "/dev/loop1" successfully created > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgcreate justinsane /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 > > > > PV /dev/loop0 too large for extent size 4,00 MiB. > > Format-specific setup of physical volume '/dev/loop0' failed. > > Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop0' to volume group > > > > 'justinsane'. > > […] > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> vgcreate --physicalextentsize 4G justinsane > > /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 > > > > Volume group "justinsane" successfully created > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgs > > > > VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree > > justinsane 2 0 0 wz--n- 14,00e 14,00e > > merkaba 1 4 0 wz--n- 278,99g 4,85g > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> > > > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgdisplay justinsane > > […] > > > Enough insanity for today :) > > Not quite: > > I won´t mkfs.xfs on it, the 20 GiB of the just filesystem wouldn´t be > > enough. > > Ok, there seems to be another limit involved: > > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> lvcreate -n yourbiggiexfs -L14E justinsane > Volume group "justinsane" has insufficient free space (3758096382 > extents): 3758096384 required. […] > merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> LANG=C lvcreate -n yourbiggiexfs -L13E justinsane > /dev/justinsane/yourbiggiexfs: lseek 0 failed: Invalid argument > /dev/justinsane/yourbiggiexfs: lseek 0 failed: Invalid argument > Logical volume "yourbiggiexfs" created > merkaba:/mnt/zeit> LANG=C lvs > /dev/justinsane/yourbiggiexfs: lseek 14987979559888945152 failed: > Invalid argument > /dev/justinsane/yourbiggiexfs: lseek 14987979559889002496 failed: > Invalid argument Well, merkaba:/mnt/zeit> LANG=C ls -l total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8070450532247928832 Mar 11 23:02 evenmorecrazy.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8070450532247928832 Mar 11 23:02 evenmorecrazy.img2 looks crazy enough for me already. (Ok, I really stop this now :) Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs