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From: Naga <nagatoro@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble creating an ext3 filesystem > 8TB
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:16:12
Message-Id: 200704100914.22260.nagatoro@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] trouble creating an ext3 filesystem > 8TB by Joshua Hoblitt
1 On Tuesday 10 April 2007 02.09.10 Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
2 > After reading in the kernel changelog that 2.6.19 should support ext3
3 > filesystems up to 16TB in size, I tried to create an 11TB filesystem.
4 > Attempting to do so gets this error from mke2fs:
5 >
6 > # mke2fs -j -J size=400 -O sparse_super,dir_index -i32768 -m1 /dev/sda4
7 > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
8 > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks
9 > (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
10 [...]
11 > Any idea what I am missing?
12
13 Bigger blocksize?
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