From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Paul Paulson <paul.paulson@seagate.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic/017: skip tests with mkfs failures
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:53:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141007005300.GA11741@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412619830-23088-1-git-send-email-paul.paulson@seagate.com>
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Paul Paulson wrote:
> The mkfs command fails to create ext4 filesystems on partition sizes
> greater than 1998080 MiB when using 1024 byte blocks and the default
> calculation for the number of inodes reserved for the filesystem.
I've never noticed a problem because creating a partition that large
makes the xfstests runs take a long, long time. I typically use a 5
GB or 20GB partition. Is there a particular reason why you are trying
to do test ext4 using a 1k blocksize for a 2T file system? We can fix
mke2fs so it doesn't fail when you create a > 2T file system with a 1k
block size, but the bigger question in my mind is why anyone would
ever want to do that?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-07 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-06 18:23 [PATCH] generic/017: skip tests with mkfs failures Paul Paulson
2014-10-06 23:21 ` Dave Chinner
2014-10-07 18:18 ` Paul Paulson
2014-10-07 0:53 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-10-07 18:12 ` Paul Paulson
2014-10-08 2:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-10-08 13:17 ` Paul Paulson
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