From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>,
Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2]Extend ext3 filesystem limit from 8TB to 16TB
Date: 31 Mar 2006 15:33:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73r74i91sr.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143746202.3896.32.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com>
Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 10:40 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Mar 29, 2006 17:38 -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > Have verified these two patches on a 64 bit machine with 10TB ext3
> > > filesystem, fsx runs fine for a few hours. Also testes on 32 bit machine
> > > with <8TB ext3.
> >
> > Have you done tests _near_ 8TB with a 32-bit machine, even without these
> > patches?
> No I haven't. The >8TB right now is attached to a 64 bit machine, but we
> should able to move it to a 32 bit machine.
If you use XFS or JFS as backing fs you can use a holey loop device
to simulate it. When I tried this last time JFS worked better for me.
XFS doesn't seem to like that many extents as will be created by
mkfs.ext2.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-31 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-25 13:33 [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs) sho
2006-03-26 22:37 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-27 4:17 ` Takashi Sato
2006-03-27 18:45 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-27 21:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-27 22:58 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-28 7:15 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-03-28 8:02 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-28 10:34 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-03-28 18:01 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-29 9:13 ` Laurent Vivier
[not found] ` <1143657317.4045.12.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com>
2006-03-29 20:00 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-29 20:38 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 8:41 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-30 1:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/2]Extend ext3 filesystem limit from 8TB to 16TB Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 1:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-31 22:42 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-02 20:13 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-10 9:11 ` [Ext2-devel] " Laurent Vivier
2006-04-10 8:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-13 15:26 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-17 21:07 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-17 21:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-17 21:32 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-18 7:14 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-18 7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-18 10:57 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-18 19:08 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-04-18 14:09 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-18 21:01 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-20 11:28 ` Laurent Vivier
[not found] ` <1145543970.5872.38.camel@openx2.frec.bull.fr>
2006-04-21 11:17 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-10 16:57 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-10 19:06 ` Mingming Cao
2006-04-11 7:07 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-04-14 17:23 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-30 17:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-03-30 19:01 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 17:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-03-30 19:16 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 19:22 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-31 6:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-03-31 13:33 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-04-01 6:50 ` Nathan Scott
2006-05-26 5:00 ` [PATCH 0/2]Define ext3 in-kernel filesystem block types and extend " Mingming Cao
2006-05-26 18:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-30 17:55 ` Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 1:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2]ext3 block allocation/reservation fixes to support 2**32 block numbers Mingming Cao
2006-03-30 1:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2]Other ext3 in-kernel block number type fix " Mingming Cao
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