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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: "Amit  Agrawal, Noida" <amitag@noida.hcltech.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bogus LBD patch
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:48:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020625074804.GA5858@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15640.5302.257228.579646@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

On Jun 25, 2002  16:59 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> I found that ext2 has too much metadata for the amount of disc space I
> have for the sparse file approach to work.

You can easily change this by reducing the number of inodes created.
If you specify "mke2fs -N 1 <dev>" you will get the minimum possible
number of inodes created.  There is currently a 16TB limit on ext2/3
filesystems, unless you are testing on a platform with 8kB+ PAGE_SIZE
and have the e2fsprogs from the BK repository, in which case you can
create 8kB blocks (for 32TB filesystems).

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-25  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2002-06-25  6:59 ` Bogus LBD patch Peter Chubb
2002-06-25  7:48   ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-06-25  1:59 Peter Chubb

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