From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m1M52gJ4013886 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:02:44 -0800 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:03:01 +1100 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC, patch 1/2] Allow up to 1GB logs in mkfs.xfs Message-ID: <20080222050301.GP155407@sgi.com> References: <20080221230833.GG155407@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Niv Sardi Cc: David Chinner , xfs-dev , xfs-oss On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:44:38PM +1100, Niv Sardi wrote: > David Chinner writes: > > Increase the maximum log size supported by mkfs. .... > > Hence logs larger than 2^30 will not work without kernel > > modifications. Therefore this change is limited to increasing the > > log size to what we can currently support in kernel space with > > needing kernel modifications. > > I'm glad you got time to get around this, I didn't include it in the > first batch as I was told it 'broke things'. Right. There's all sorts of nasties lurking if we go over 1GB in size, but AFAICT up to 1GB is OK. There's still lots of validation needing to be done - that's why this is an "RFC" and not something ready for checkin yet. That's where more eye's and testers are handy... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group