Ps. I've looked through e2fsprogs configure.in and it doesn't look like there's a magic flag to enable this support either.
-J -- On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:09:10PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > After reading in the kernel changelog that 2.6.19 should support ext3 > filesystems up to 16TB in size, I tried to create an 11TB filesystem. > Attempting to do so gets this error from mke2fs: > > # mke2fs -j -J size=400 -O sparse_super,dir_index -i32768 -m1 /dev/sda4 > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks > (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported. > # mke2fs -j /dev/sda4 > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) > mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks > (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported. > > This is on a system running 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.39 > > ChangeLog for in kernel 16TB ext3 support: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=855565e81ad8940cc645b5110ec2c7f124a76d23 > > Release notes for e2fsprogs claiming 16TB support (2**32 blocks). > > http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.39 > > Any idea what I am missing? > > Cheers, > > -J > > --
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