From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:31:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010201003113.A29077@lina.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010131232757.A23675@lina.inka.de> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101312315040.24868-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101312315040.24868-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>; from jas88@cam.ac.uk on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:15:56PM +0000
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:15:56PM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096
>
> That just creates a 128Mb file of zeros... This sounds a bit small. Why
> "size=4096"??
because i am too tired to calculate. mkreiserfs wants 32768 (32*1024) blocks
with a size of 4k. I created the smallest possible image to test reiserfs.
> > Yes, I wonder if it is a Error in mkreiserfs to require 128MB.
>
> Have you tried using a smaller blocksize to mkreiserfs?
Sure I have.
Greetings
Bernd
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 4:23 [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel Bernd Eckenfels
[not found] ` <Pine.SOL.4.21.0101310923480.29972-100000@green.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2001-01-31 22:27 ` reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel) Bernd Eckenfels
2001-01-31 23:15 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-31 23:31 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2001-02-01 16:49 ` Chris Mason
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