Re: Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Lance Reed wrote:
> Great!
> That is exactly what I needed to know.
> 
> One follow up question:
> 
> Can I assume that the bug:
> TAKE 959978 - growing an XFS filesystem by more than 2TB is broken
> is a problem only with the the xfs_growfs code?  The reason I asked is that when I first made the original filesystem, I created it using mkfs.xfs and it succeeded fine for 10.5 TB.
> 
> # mkfs.xfs /dev/VolGroupNAS200/LogVolNAS200
> meta-data=/dev/VolGroupNAS200/LogVolNAS200 isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=83886080 blks
>          =                       sectsz=512   attr=0
> data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=2684354560, imaxpct=25
>          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
> naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
> log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1
>          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
> realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=
> 
> so I am assuming the rest of the XFS setup can handle large Filesystems fine.  I am just trying to confirm that the probem is TAKE 959978 and that doing it in less than 2 TB increments should be fine.

yes, it was just in the growth path.

-Eric