From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Big Block Device does not format...
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:36:22 -0500
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To: Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>
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On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 09:02, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:39, Oliver Pabst wrote:
> > Hello list,
> 
> Hello Oliver,
> 
> > I try to mkreiserfs /dev/evms/userhomes and /dev/evms/userhomes is a
> > drive-linked evms feature object with a sum of 18.8TB.
> >
> > mkreiserfs /dev/evms/userhomes gives following result:
> >
> > count_blocks: block device too large
> > Aborted
> 
> which reiserfsprogs version do you use?
> would you try the latest one from our ftp site?
> 
The limit for 4k block based filesysytems is 16TB.

Try something with extents, or try on ia64 where you can use bigger
pages.

-chris