Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Mon Oct 3 22:53:31 UTC 2011


On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I wasn't able to give the VM enough memory to make this succeed.  I've
>> only got 8G on this laptop.  Should I need large amounts of memory to
>> create these filesystems?
>>
>> At 100T it doesn't run out of memory, but the man behind the curtain
>> starts to show.  The underlying qcow2 file grows to several gigs and I
>> had to kill it.  I need to play with the lazy init features of ext4.
>>
>> Rich.
>>
> 
> Bleah.  Care to use xfs? ;)

why we've to use xfs? really? nobody really use large fs on linux? or
nobody really use rhel? why not the e2fsprogs has too much upstream
support? with 2-3TB disk the 16TB fs limit is really funny...or not so
funny:-(

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