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On 4/10/07, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> After looking through various patches that were posted to LKML, I |
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> discovered that passing "-F" to mke2fs seems to make this work as |
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> expected. However, this behavior seems to be undocumented and that |
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> makes me more then a little nervous. |
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> The resulting filesystem does seem to be mountable: |
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> /dev/sda4 11T 173M 11T 1% /export/ipp003.0 |
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> Is this feature undocumented for a reason or is it just unsupported? |
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Any reason you are so set on ext3? Its fine for a general purpose fs |
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but this might be a sign you are stretching its intended limits. |
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Perhaps something 64-bit like xfs or jfs would be a better option |
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depending on your intended usage / workload. |
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Wil |
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