From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ??
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:32:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090718143219.GL4231@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090718142156.GC2682@basil.fritz.box>
On Jul 18, 2009 16:21 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > We don't have to rewrite fsck; most of the framework for supporting an
> > run-length-conding for compressed bitmaps is already in patches that
> > add > 32-bit block numbers to e2fsprogs; we've just been more focused
> > on getting 64-bit block numbers support merged than implementing
> > compressed bitmaps, but it's only one file that would need to be
> > added, and we might be able to steal the compressed bitmap support
> > from xfsprogs --- which does this already.
>
> There are regular reports of xfs_repair failing on 32bit,
> even on volumes far smaller than 16TB.
It's a good thing we have ext4 then :-).
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 0:08 How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ?? Neil Brown
2009-07-18 4:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-18 4:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-18 6:16 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 6:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-18 7:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 13:49 ` Theodore Tso
2009-07-18 14:21 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 14:21 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 14:21 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 14:32 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-07-18 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-19 0:54 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-19 11:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-29 15:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-29 15:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-29 15:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-19 3:44 ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-07-18 6:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-18 6:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-22 6:59 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-22 6:59 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-22 18:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-22 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-22 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
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