From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chandan@mykolab.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic/224: Increase filesystem instance size to 1.5 GiB
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:11:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150831181127.GB7642@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440945981-323-1-git-send-email-chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:16:21PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> For small filesystem instances (i.e. size <= 1 GiB), mkfs.btrfs fails when
> "data block size" does not match with the "metadata block size" specified on
> the mkfs.btrfs command line. This commit increases the size of filesystem
> instance created so that the test can be executed on subpagesize-blocksize
> Btrfs instances which have different values for data and metadata blocksizes.
Stupid question --- why isn't this considered a bug in mkfs.btrfs?
Does btrfs simply not support file systems <= 1 GB? So if someone has
a 1GB USB disk or SD card, what's the official advice from the btrfs
developers? Use xfs or ext4?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-31 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-30 14:46 [PATCH] generic/224: Increase filesystem instance size to 1.5 GiB Chandan Rajendra
2015-08-31 18:11 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-08-31 19:19 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-08-31 21:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-01 0:19 ` Chandan Rajendra
2015-09-01 0:38 ` Chandan Rajendra
2015-09-01 2:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-01 2:33 ` Chandan Rajendra
2015-09-11 1:38 ` Qu Wenruo
2015-09-11 1:38 ` Qu Wenruo
2015-09-22 5:18 ` Chandan Rajendra
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