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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not.
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:28:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111004042814.GO6684@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8A859C.2070501@redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:03:40PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> It comes up with too many inodes, then tries to reduce the count,
> but the "waste not want not" logic bumps it back up... ipg eventually
> goes "below" 0 but it's unsigned so it goes on in this loop forever.

Oh, this is because of the fact that we can't have more than 2**32
inodes, right?  Doh!

> Some of this is my fault... I put that retry logic in years ago.  :(
> 
> I'll see what I can do to fix it up.

Many thanks.  I've fixed the other issues you've pointed out.  Check
out the next branch on github...

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 21:55 mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04  4:00 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-04  4:26   ` [PATCH 1/2] Add "big" and "huge" types to mke2fs.conf Theodore Ts'o
2011-10-04  4:27     ` [PATCH 2/2] libext2fs: fix bad cast which causes problems for file systems > 512EB Theodore Ts'o
2011-10-04 11:47       ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04 18:05         ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-04 18:15           ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04  5:31   ` mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not Andreas Dilger
2011-10-04  4:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-10-04  4:28   ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-10-04  7:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones

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