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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block <BLOCKID>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213030432.GB32281@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+hid6Hr8wBD_ibQF5FMKnApXUocg+SQZ17ApJz-LvBFnw39JQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +0000, James Broadhead wrote

> So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I
> have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it.
> This leads me to suspect that it's either an ext4 bug or the situation
> that you mentioned above.
> 
> Both are Western Digital 2TB disks;
> 1058:1130 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
> 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB

  Could these disks be slightly larger than 2 TB?  If you you use
"make menuconfig", the setting is...

-*- Enable the block layer  --->
    [*]   Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files

  If you edit .config manually, set...

CONFIG_LBDAF=y

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12 20:33 [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block <BLOCKID> James Broadhead
2011-12-12 20:55 ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-13  0:03   ` James Broadhead
2011-12-13  0:23     ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-13  9:52       ` James Broadhead
2011-12-13  3:04     ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2011-12-13 10:01       ` James Broadhead
2011-12-12 21:52 ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-12 22:44   ` Adam Carter

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