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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:12:43 -1000
From: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble creating an ext3 filesystem > 8TB
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Ps.  I've looked through e2fsprogs configure.in and it doesn't look like
there's a magic flag to enable this support either.

-J

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:09:10PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> After reading in the kernel changelog that 2.6.19 should support ext3
> filesystems up to 16TB in size, I tried to create an 11TB filesystem.
> Attempting to do so gets this error from mke2fs:
>=20
> # mke2fs -j -J size=3D400 -O sparse_super,dir_index -i32768 -m1 /dev/sda4=
=20
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
>          (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
> # mke2fs -j /dev/sda4
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
>          (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
>=20
> This is on a system running 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.39
>=20
> ChangeLog for in kernel 16TB ext3 support:
>=20
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=3Dco=
mmit;h=3D855565e81ad8940cc645b5110ec2c7f124a76d23
>=20
> Release notes for e2fsprogs claiming 16TB support (2**32 blocks).
>=20
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.39
>=20
> Any idea what I am missing?
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> -J
>=20
> --



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