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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Use of kmalloc vs vmalloc in ext4?
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:39:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090425033955.GF13608@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090425030703.GD13608@mit.edu>

P.S.   What sort of flex_bg size are you using?

          EXT4-fs: not enough memory for 8198 flex groups
          EXT4-fs: unable to initialize flex_bg meta info!

Modern e2fsprogs default to using 16 block groups per flex_bg, which
means 8198 flex groups is a little over 16 TB --- which the mainline
e2fsprogs doesn't support yet.  You wouldn't be using a smaller
flex_bg size for some reason, are you?

If so, can you say something about why?  I've been actually thinking
that we might want to bump up the flex_bg size slight more, but it
appears you're using something smaller; was this deliberate.

	       	     	       		    - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-25  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 14:32 Use of kmalloc vs vmalloc in ext4? Curt Wohlgemuth
2009-04-06  6:45 ` Michael Rubin
2009-04-06  9:33   ` Andreas Dilger
2009-04-25  3:00   ` [PATCH] ext4: Fallback to vmalloc if kmalloc can't allocate s_flex_groups array Theodore Ts'o
2009-04-25  3:28     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-04-25  3:57       ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-25  3:07   ` Use of kmalloc vs vmalloc in ext4? Theodore Tso
2009-04-25  3:39     ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-04-26  2:12       ` Theodore Tso

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