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and subject line Re: Bug#514982: mke2fs option -i works not like documentation
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Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.41.3
Severity: minor
mke2fs -i 1M <Device> print a error like
"wrong bytes-per-inode ratio (min 1024/max 65536)"
but
mke2fs -i 1048576 <Device> build the filesystem correct.
Other value are also possible (like 1234567).
For large filesystems and devices with few large files is a large range
of the bytes-per-inode ratio important.
The Error is first 2exp(n) in the short form should be working,
and second short help and man-pages are wrong.
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tags 514982 +wontfix
thanks
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:59:47PM +0100, Thomas Schlegel wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.41.3
> Severity: minor
>
> mke2fs -i 1M <Device> print a error like
> "wrong bytes-per-inode ratio (min 1024/max 65536)"
> but
> mke2fs -i 1048576 <Device> build the filesystem correct.
I'm not sure what documentation implied to you that "mke2fs -i 1M"
would work.
> For large filesystems and devices with few large files is a large range
> of the bytes-per-inode ratio important.
I think more users are likely to get this wrong than right. Consider
that directories and symbolic links need to be taken into account,
setting an inode ratio of a megabyte may often cause users to complain
about running out of inodes, for which there isn't a solution besides
reformatting the filesystem.
So for people who really know what they are doing they can specify the
large number by hand.
- Ted
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