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

[James Broadhead]

On 2011-12-13, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
>
>

No! It's the usual SI measurement.
1.8TiB in powers-of-two.

I'll enable it anyway.