From: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: qla2xxx BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:23:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F65F80.7050202@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070313070134.GK5266@schatzie.adilger.int>
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2007 16:22 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote:
>> Mingming Cao wrote:
>>> IBM has done some testing (dbench, fsstress, fsx, tiobench, iozone etc)
>>> on 10TB ext3, I think RedHat and BULL have done similar test on >8TB
>>> ext3 too.
>> Is there not a problem of backward-compatibility with old kernels?
>> Doesn't we need to handle a new INCOMPAT flag in e2fsprogs and kernel
>> before allowing ext3 filesystems greater than 8T?
>
> No, it really depends on the kernel. There were some bugs that caused
> problems with > 8TB because of signed 32-bit int problems, so it isn't
> really recommended to use > 8TB unless you know this is fixed in your
> kernel (and any older kernel you might have to downgrade to).
>
OK. Thanks.
As Andre mentions it, it seems that the option "-F" for mkfs is
necessary to create an ext3 FS > 8T.
(I've got the same behavior but I didn't apply the latest patches
against my current version of e2fsprogs, so I can't check if that has
changed since).
Is it the right way?
Valérie
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2007-03-07 19:45 ` qla2xxx BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic Andrew Morton
2007-03-07 20:05 ` Mingming Cao
2007-03-09 9:36 ` Andre Noll
2007-03-12 15:22 ` Valerie Clement
2007-03-13 7:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-03-13 8:23 ` Valerie Clement [this message]
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