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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:02:33PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:26:47PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Enable all possible OCFS2 kconfig options: > >> > >> > >> > >> In file included from fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:42: > >> fs/ocfs2/journal.h: In function 'ocfs2_begin_ordered_truncate': >

ocfs2 currently uses the Journaled Block Device (JBD) for its journaling. This is a very stable and tested codebase. However, JBD is limited by architecture to 32bit block numbers. This means an ocfs2 filesystem is limited to 2^32 blocks. With a 4K blocksize, that's 16TB. People want larger volumes. Fortunately, there is now JBD2. JBD2 adds 64bit block number support and some other