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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:49:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432150000.981046189@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010131232757.A23675@lina.inka.de>



On Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:27:57 PM +0100 Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
>> 32 megaBLOCK?? How big is it in Mbytes?
> 
> Blocksize is 4k, mkreiserfs in my version is telling me it can not generate
> partitions smaller than 32M but it is not true, i have to do
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096
> 
>> You do know reiserfs defaults to
>> building a 32 Mbyte journal on the device, I take it?
> 
> Yes, I wonder if it is a Error in mkreiserfs to require 128MB.

It is.  The actual min is around 40MB (with 32MB used by the journal.  Next version of mkreiserfs will be fixed.

-chris

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-01 16:50 UTC|newest]

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
2001-02-01 16:49     ` Chris Mason [this message]

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