I need to setup a 3.27TB ext3 filesystem using -i 1024 and -b 1024.
When I try to format this partition I get the "Filesystem too large."
error. Are there any plans to update these limits? are there any
patches already available that I can try out? Or am I just SOL here?
(vzbu2 ~)# fdisk -l /dev/etherd/e1.1
Disk /dev/etherd/e1.1: 3600.7 GB, 3600795892224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 437771 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/etherd/e1.1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
(vzbu2 ~)# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/lvg01/vz
VG Name lvg01
LV UUID CH5TEA-WC61-oSMX-olxz-sBTf-L1Ho-E1740u
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 3.27 TB
Current LE 858496
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0
mkfs.ext3 -i 1024 -b 1024 /dev/lvg01/vz
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
mkfs.ext3: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks
(8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
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Brandon Evans
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On Apr 03, 2006 17:16 -0700, Brandon Evans wrote:> I need to setup a 3.27TB ext3 filesystem using -i 1024 and -b 1024. > > When I try to format this partition I get the "Filesystem too large." > error. Are there any plans to update these limits? are there any > patches already available that I can try out? Or am I just SOL here?The same patches that have been posted here (or maybe ext2-devel?) to increase the fs size to 16TB are applicable in your case. They are experimental at this stage, however, but as always, testing is welcome. The other question is why you want to have a 3TB filesystem with 1kB blocks, unless you are consistently creating very small files... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.