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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: what is the FS size limit for xfs_repair ?
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:04:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081003170452.50a7ec78@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)


After a system crash on a system with a 40TB XFS filesystem, xfs_repair
(32 bits binary, with a 64 bits 2.6.24 kernel) refused to work ("cannot
allocate block map, size xxx").
The 64 bits xfs_repair did the trick fine. 

I tried to reproduce the problem today by corrupting a 22TB filesystem.
However, 32 bits xfs_repair repaired the 22 TB FS just fine in the very
same configuration (64 bits kernel, etc).

I thought the limit would be at 16TB (32 bits limit for a filesystem)
but obviously this isn't the case. Is the limitation higher (like 32
TB) or is it a bug of etch 4.0r4 xfs_repair?

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Emmanuel Florac     |   Intellique
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 15:04 Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2008-10-03 15:23 ` what is the FS size limit for xfs_repair ? James Braid
2008-10-03 20:39   ` Emmanuel Florac
2008-10-04  0:22     ` Mark Goodwin

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