From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:50:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:50:31 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:51703 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:50:31 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:48:04 -0600 To: Peter Chubb Cc: "Amit Agrawal, Noida" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bogus LBD patch Message-ID: <20020625074804.GA5858@clusterfs.com> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Chubb , "Amit Agrawal, Noida" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <15640.5302.257228.579646@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15640.5302.257228.579646@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 " 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/