From: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: 64-bit e2fsprogs tree for testing
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127052936.GB13163@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090123002815.GJ12643@shell>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:28:15PM -0500, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The e2fsprogs 64-bit branch is available for public testing. This
> branch adds support for creating, checking, etc. ext4 file systems
> with more than 2^32 blocks - i.e., more than 16TB on most systems.
> This is for TESTING ONLY - don't put any data you care about on it!
>
> The public git repository is available here:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/val/e2fsprogs.git
>
> The branch is "64bit".
>
> Known bugs:
>
> * compilation of programs using certain libe2p routines may fail
> (chattr, lsattr)
> * fsck will fail if directories contain blocks above the 32-bit
> boundary
I just finished and pushed the fix for the second item (64-bit
dblists).
Note that I'll be unavailable for the next week while I recover from
shoulder surgery.
-VAL
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