Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block <BLOCKID>

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +0000, James Broadhead wrote

> So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I
> have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it.
> This leads me to suspect that it's either an ext4 bug or the situation
> that you mentioned above.
>
> Both are Western Digital 2TB disks;
> 1058:1130 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
> 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB

  Could these disks be slightly larger than 2 TB?  If you you use
"make menuconfig", the setting is...

-*- Enable the block layer  --->
    [*]   Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files

  If you edit .config manually, set...

CONFIG_LBDAF=y

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>