From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:06:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20111004070613.GA10216@amd.home.annexia.org> References: <4E8A2F3F.30700@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ext4 development To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41220 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754438Ab1JDHGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:06:20 -0400 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9476KNM025756 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:06:20 -0400 Received: from localhost (vpn1-7-184.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.7.184]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9476IYX008976 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 03:06:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E8A2F3F.30700@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v