Oh, sorry, I thought the limit cannot be reached that easy in case of sparse files full of unalocated blocks. Apparently the limit includes the unallocated space.
I retested that again and the sparse file really gets truncated to 16TB and I believe that's exactly the moment when the tool should report some error like: "Unable to create sparse file of that size! Unsupported by the target filesystem." Instead of that the tool continues to extract data and after a long time it fails with Invalid argument. To prevent confusion, would it be possible to modify the code to make it fail immediately when it fails to create the sparse file of the required size? Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063369 Title: e2image reports invalid argument when used with big partitions Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: It seems e2image is unable to work correctly with large filesystems. I get the following error with etx4 on top of 48TB RAID5 array. # e2image -pr /dev/md3 md3.e2i e2image 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) Scanning inodes... Copying 802818 / 1547571 blocks (52%) 00:02:21 remaining at 20.50 MB/sseek_relative: Invalid argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/2063369/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
