From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic/017: skip tests with mkfs failures Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:53:00 -0400 Message-ID: <20141007005300.GA11741@thunk.org> References: <1412619830-23088-1-git-send-email-paul.paulson@seagate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Paulson Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:39341 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752094AbaJGAxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:53:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1412619830-23088-1-git-send-email-paul.paulson@seagate.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Paul Paulson wrote: > The mkfs command fails to create ext4 filesystems on partition sizes > greater than 1998080 MiB when using 1024 byte blocks and the default > calculation for the number of inodes reserved for the filesystem. I've never noticed a problem because creating a partition that large makes the xfstests runs take a long, long time. I typically use a 5 GB or 20GB partition. Is there a particular reason why you are trying to do test ext4 using a 1k blocksize for a 2T file system? We can fix mke2fs so it doesn't fail when you create a > 2T file system with a 1k block size, but the bigger question in my mind is why anyone would ever want to do that? - Ted