Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/5/11 12:54 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:58:59AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try # mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT. It'll

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/05/2011 12:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:38:18PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 05:30 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: XFS has been proven at this scale on Linux for a very long time, is all. the why rh do NOT support it in 32 bit? there're still system

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 10/05/2011 04:01 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/05/2011 12:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:38:18PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 05:30 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: XFS has been proven at this scale on Linux for a very long time, is all. the why rh do

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/4/11 6:53 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 10/04/2011 07:19 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 10/03/2011 06:33 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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?)

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/5/11 9:58 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/4/11 6:53 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: ... Note that ext4 has a new feature that allows inodes to be initialized in the background, so you will see much quicker mkfs.ext4 times as well :) right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try #

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:58:59AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try # mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT. It'll also keep sparse test images smaller. IMHO this

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 10:42:37AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/5/11 9:58 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/4/11 6:53 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: ... Note that ext4 has a new feature that allows inodes to be initialized in the background, so you will see much quicker mkfs.ext4 times as

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-05 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/05/2011 05:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: right; for large ext4 fs use (or testing), try # mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=1 /dev/blah this will cause it to skip inode table initialization, and speed up mkfs a LOT. It'll also keep sparse test images smaller. IMHO this should probably be

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:33:47PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: 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

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
100T seems to work for light use. I can create the filesystem, mount it, write files and directories and read them back, and fsck doesn't report any problems. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda199T 129M 94T 1% /sysroot Linux (none)

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 5:53 PM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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: I wasn't able to give the VM enough memory to make this

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: Large filesystem support for ext4 has languished upstream for a very long time, and few in the community seemed terribly interested to test it, either. why? that's what i simple do not understand!?... -- Levente Si

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 5:53 PM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:11:28PM -0500,

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 10/04/2011 03:12 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: Large filesystem support for ext4 has languished upstream for a very long time, and few in the community seemed terribly interested to test it, either. why? that's what i simple do not understand!?...

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/4/11 2:09 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 5:53 PM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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: I wasn't

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/04/2011 05:30 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: XFS has been proven at this scale on Linux for a very long time, is all. the why rh do NOT support it in 32 bit? there're still system that should have to run on 32 bit:-( 32-bit machines have a 32-bit index into the page cache; on x86, that

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 10/03/2011 06:33 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-04 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 10/04/2011 07:19 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 10/03/2011 06:33 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now. Anyone who wants to fiddle with large ext4 filesystems, have at it please! Is there any background information to this change that I can read? I created a 2**60

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/3/11 1:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now. Anyone who wants to fiddle with large ext4 filesystems, have at it please! Is there any background information to

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:10:43PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 1:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now. Anyone who wants to fiddle with large ext4

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/3/11 4:05 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:10:43PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 10/3/11 1:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:51:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: Another little heads up - a newer snapshot is built in rawhide now. Anyone

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Farkas Levente
On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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: 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

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
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 \

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
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

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 10/3/11 5:53 PM, Farkas Levente wrote: On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: 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: I wasn't able to give the VM enough memory to make this succeed. I've only got 8G on this laptop.

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 8/9/11 8:15 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: ... now, finally, with more 64-bit-ness! From Ted: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-08-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/09/2011 06:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in theory you can at least mfks mount a 16T fs and beyond, if

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-08-10 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 08/10/2011 07:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/09/2011 06:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in theory you

Re: Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-08-10 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 08/10/2011 07:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/09/2011 06:45 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in theory you

Heads up: e2fsprogs-1.42-WIP-0702 pushed to rawhide

2011-08-09 Thread Eric Sandeen
... now, finally, with more 64-bit-ness! From Ted: I've made the first WIP release of e2fsprogs 1.42. The primary purpose is for people to test the 64-bit functionality and be confident that we didn't introduce any 32-bit regressions. So in theory you can at least mfks mount a 16T fs and