From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Michael <mike@draftx.net>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4 Larger Than 16TB
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:47:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EC64E8.8090509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGJTRchb5KpYLEOKB1bzNSmJ4SQQ9YVf9UZEsd+Hu38D5mW05g@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/09/2013 06:45 AM, Michael wrote:
> No problem, it sounds like it would be a very tricky bit of code to
> write. Shuffling metadata blocks is not an easy feat.
>
> Is there any way to tell if I'm using 64 bit? Ubuntu defaults to
> setting ext4 to default, but I don't know if it did when I first
> created this FS.
>
> If it is 64 bit, the resize2fs utility should be able to handle this
> one kernels >3.7, correct?
>
Is there a way to force this at mkfs time? I.e. "I know I may want to
expand this filesystem beyond the 16 TB point?"
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-21 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 21:32 EXT4 Larger Than 16TB Michael
2013-07-09 2:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-09 13:45 ` Michael
2013-07-21 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-21 23:43 ` Zheng Liu
2013-07-22 0:44 ` Michael
2013-07-22 0:52 ` Zheng Liu
2013-07-22 0:59 ` Michael
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