On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> testing something more real-world (20T ... 500T?) might still be interesting. > > Here's my test script: > > qemu-img create -f qcow2 test1.img 500T && \ > guestfish -a test1.img \ > memsize 4096 : run : \ > part-disk /dev/vda gpt : mkfs ext4 /dev/vda1 > > The guestfish "mkfs" command translates directly to "mke2fs -t ext4" > in this case. > > 500T: fails with the same error: > > /dev/vda1: Cannot create filesystem with requested number of inodes while > setting up superblock > > By a process of bisection I found that I get the same error for > all sizes >= 255T. > > For 254T, I get: > > /dev/vda1: Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock > > I wasn't able to give the VM enough memory to make this succeed. I've > only got 8G on this laptop. Should I need large amounts of memory to > create these filesystems? > > At 100T it doesn't run out of memory, but the man behind the curtain > starts to show. The underlying qcow2 file grows to several gigs and I > had to kill it. I need to play with the lazy init features of ext4. > > Rich. >
Bleah. Care to use xfs? ;) Anyway, interesting; when I tried the larger sizes I got many other problems, but never the "requested number of inodes" error. I just created a large sparse file on xfs, and pointed mke2fs at that. But I'm using bleeding-edge git, ~= the latest WIP snapshot (which I haven't put into rawhide yet, because it doesn't actually build for me w/o a couple patches I'd like upstream to ACK first). -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
