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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext4: limit block allocations for	indirect-block files to < 2^32
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:01:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910220100.GK9372@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910215158.GI9372@webber.adilger.int>

On Sep 10, 2009  23:51 +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Well, it may depend a lot on which inodes are in use.  That will set the
> goal block, and may prevent any above-16TB allocations.  Either you could
> fill the bitmaps with 0xff (and zero the free blocks counters, to avoid
> problems with mballoc), or actually fill the first 16TB of the filesystem.

Or, just start creating top-level directories until you get one past
16TB and use that for your test...  We have a patch for allowing a
goal inode to be specified, and it might make sense to add a mount
option to allow setting the inode goal for testing...

Hey, look, I even posted that patch, I now recall:
http://osdir.com/ml/linux-ext4/2009-06/msg00233.html

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 22:17 [PATCH, RFC] ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32 Eric Sandeen
2009-09-05  3:21 ` [PATCH, RFC V2] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-05 16:45   ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-05 18:16     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 16:02     ` [PATCH, RFC V3] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 16:53       ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-10 16:56         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:10       ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-10 21:16         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:33           ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-10 21:42             ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 21:51           ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-10 21:57             ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 23:19               ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-11 14:15                 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-10 22:01             ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-09-14 20:03       ` [PATCH, RFC V4] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-16 18:54         ` Theodore Tso

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