From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
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Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:06:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111004070613.GA10216@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8A2F3F.30700@sandeen.net>
Thanks Eric. Here is the original thread (see also the replies).
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157618.html
In theory I could test this up to ~ 2**63, but it requires a number of
bugfixes and changes in qemu. Obviously that size is ridiculous :-)
but it may reveal bugs that wouldn't be found by ordinary testing.
Rich.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 21:55 mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04 4:00 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-04 4:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add "big" and "huge" types to mke2fs.conf Theodore Ts'o
2011-10-04 4:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] libext2fs: fix bad cast which causes problems for file systems > 512EB Theodore Ts'o
2011-10-04 11:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04 18:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-04 18:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04 5:31 ` mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not Andreas Dilger
2011-10-04 4:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04 4:28 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-04 7:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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