[gentoo-amd64] trouble creating an ext3 filesystem > 8TB

[Joshua Hoblitt]

After reading in the kernel changelog that 2.6.19 should support ext3
filesystems up to 16TB in size, I tried to create an 11TB filesystem.
Attempting to do so gets this error from mke2fs:

# mke2fs -j -J size=400 -O sparse_super,dir_index -i32768 -m1 /dev/sda4 
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
         (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
# mke2fs -j /dev/sda4
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
         (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.

This is on a system running 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.39

ChangeLog for in kernel 16TB ext3 support:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=855565e81ad8940cc645b5110ec2c7f124a76d23

Release notes for e2fsprogs claiming 16TB support (2**32 blocks).

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.39

Any idea what I am missing?

Cheers,

-J

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