On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now.
Anyone who wants to fiddle with large ext4 filesystems, have at
it please!
Is there any background information to this change that I can read?
I created a 2**60 byte disk, partitioned it, and tried to create an
ext4 filesystem on it, but that doesn't work:
<rescue> mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/vda1
mke2fs 1.42-WIP
(25-Sep-2011)
Warning: the fs_type huge is not defined in mke2fs.conf
/dev/vda1: Cannot create filesystem with requested number of inodes while setting up
superblock
<rescue> parted /dev/vda print
Model: Virtio Block
Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vda: 1126TB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 32.8kB 1126TB 1126TB p1
Rich.
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