From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Pascal <pa5ca1@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Maximum file system size of XFS?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:57:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303112257.00798.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303112245.40522.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Am Montag, 11. März 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> 2) Create a insanely big sparse file
>
> merkaba:~> truncate -s1E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
> merkaba:~> ls -lh /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,0E Mär 11 22:37 /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
>
> (No, this won´t work with Ext4.)
Okay, you can´t go beyond 8 EiB for a single file which is about what I have
read somewhere:
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> ls -lh
insgesamt 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,0E Mär 11 22:37 evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s2E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s3E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s4E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s5E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s6E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> truncate -s7E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> LANG=C truncate -s8E /mnt/zeit/evenmorecrazy.img
truncate: invalid number '8E': Value too large for defined data type
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#1> ls -lh
insgesamt 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:49 evenmorecrazy.img
So so tests stops there, until you concatenate two of those files with LVM
or SoftRAID 0 (if that works). Like this (I just had to try it):
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> ls -lh
insgesamt 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:49 evenmorecrazy.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,0E Mär 11 22:52 evenmorecrazy.img2
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> losetup /dev/loop0 evenmorecrazy.img
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> losetup /dev/loop1 evenmorecrazy.img2
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> pvcreate /dev/loop0
Physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> pvcreate /dev/loop1
Physical volume "/dev/loop1" successfully created
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgcreate justinsane /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1
PV /dev/loop0 too large for extent size 4,00 MiB.
Format-specific setup of physical volume '/dev/loop0' failed.
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop0' to volume group 'justinsane'.
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> vgcreate --physicalextentsize 16M justinsane
/dev/loop0 /dev/loop1
PV /dev/loop0 too large for extent size 16,00 MiB.
Format-specific setup of physical volume '/dev/loop0' failed.
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop0' to volume group 'justinsane'.
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> vgcreate --physicalextentsize 128M justinsane
/dev/loop0 /dev/loop1
PV /dev/loop0 too large for extent size 128,00 MiB.
Format-specific setup of physical volume '/dev/loop0' failed.
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop0' to volume group 'justinsane'.
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> vgcreate --physicalextentsize 1G justinsane /dev/loop0
/dev/loop1
PV /dev/loop0 too large for extent size 1,00 GiB.
Format-specific setup of physical volume '/dev/loop0' failed.
Unable to add physical volume '/dev/loop0' to volume group 'justinsane'.
merkaba:/mnt/zeit#5> vgcreate --physicalextentsize 4G justinsane /dev/loop0
/dev/loop1
Volume group "justinsane" successfully created
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
justinsane 2 0 0 wz--n- 14,00e 14,00e
merkaba 1 4 0 wz--n- 278,99g 4,85g
merkaba:/mnt/zeit>
merkaba:/mnt/zeit> vgdisplay justinsane
--- Volume group ---
VG Name justinsane
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 1
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 0
Open LV 0
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 14,00 EiB
PE Size 4,00 GiB
Total PE 3758096382
Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
Free PE / Size 3758096382 / 14,00 EiB
VG UUID z8JP5s-lfRw-uKo8-DXAP-XWGe-aKra-xug9Nn
Enough insanity for today :)
I won´t mkfs.xfs on it, the 20 GiB of the just filesystem wouldn´t be
enough.
Thanks,
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-11 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-09 20:51 Maximum file system size of XFS? Pascal
2013-03-09 22:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-09 22:39 ` Pascal
2013-03-10 1:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-10 7:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 11:02 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 16:15 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2013-03-11 16:22 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-03-11 1:55 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 21:45 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-11 21:57 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2013-03-11 22:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-11 22:04 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-20 18:26 ` Pascal
2013-03-11 22:19 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 22:10 ` Martin Steigerwald
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