From: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: greg.marsden@oracle.com, joe.jin@oracle.com
Subject: mkfs.xfs man page for -nsize
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:41:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422124118.GA3406@laptop.oracle.com> (raw)
Hi experts,
When trying -nsize=128 and -n6144 option to mkfs.xfs respectively, I got
error message:
"Illegal value xxx for -n size option"
But checking the man page,
----------------
-n naming_options
These options specify the version and size parameters for the
naming (directory) area of the filesystem. The valid nam-ing_options are:
size=value | log=value
The block size is specified either as a value in bytes
with size=, or as a base two logarithm value with log=. The default size value
for version 2 directories is 4096 bytes (4 KiB), unless the filesystem block
size is larger than 4096, in which case the default value is the filesystem
block size. For version 1 directories the block size is the same as the
filesystem block size.
----------------
I got no idea why the value is illegal.
Checking the codes, I found it also must be larger or equal to block size and it
must be in powers of 2, 2^N. Should we add these two limitation to man page?
regards,
wengang.
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next reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 12:40 UTC|newest]
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2010-04-22 12:41 Wengang Wang [this message]
2010-04-22 16:33 ` mkfs.xfs man page for -nsize Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-23 1:56 ` Wengang Wang
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