Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Valerie Clement
Jose R. Santos wrote: Hi Valerie, I tried the patches and while the tools such as mkfs and debugfs seem to work fine, I am still unable to mount a filesystem with block numbers exceeding 32 bits. I am testing on a 2.6.21.1 kernel with the ext4 patches from:

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Wed, 09 May 2007 14:16:55 +0200 Valerie Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jose, I'm sorry to reply so late, I had a day off yesterday. I only tested the tools on an x86_64 system. Could it be an endianess issue? On which platform do you run? Valérie Hi Valerie, I think this has

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Sandeen
Valerie Clement wrote: Jose R. Santos wrote: I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are represented using unsigned long. I'm trying to get access to a 64bit arch to confirm this. -JRS Oh, I didn't catch

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:21:44 -0500 Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valerie Clement wrote: Jose R. Santos wrote: I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are represented using unsigned long. I'm

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 09, 2007 16:57 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote: Jose R. Santos wrote: I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are represented using unsigned long. I'm trying to get access to a 64bit arch to confirm

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Sandeen
Jose R. Santos wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:21:44 -0500 Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose, you mentioned that some blocks are still unsigned long on 32-bits... they shouldn't be, the LBD work should have fixed all those long ago. But there is still the 16TB page cache limit in

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Sandeen
Valerie Clement wrote: Get the new version of e2fsprogs at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs-interim/e2fsprogs-1.39-tyt3 and apply the patchset in attachment. Hope this helps, Valérie Valérie, this looks a bit odd in 02_use_64bit_io, in debugfs.c: @@

Re: Creating a 32bit blocks filesystem.

2007-05-07 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Mon, 7 May 2007 11:19:52 -0500 Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the patches and while the tools such as mkfs and debugfs seem to work fine, I am still unable to mount a filesystem with block numbers exceeding 32 bits. Correction, I tested debugfs on a 32bit blocks