From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64bit + resize2fs... this is Not Good.
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:04:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121114210450.GC23511@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121114203942.GA23511@thunk.org>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:39:42PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The reason why you lost so badly when you did an off-line resize was
> because you explicitly changed the resize limit default, via the -E
> resize=NNN option. (Can you explain to me your thinking about why you
> specified this, just out of curiosity?) Normally the default is 1000
> times the size of the original file system, or for a file system
> larger than 1.6TB, enough so that the file system can be resized to
> the maximum amount that can be supported via the resize_inode scheme,
> which is 16TB.
Correction: for any file system larger than 16GB....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-14 3:51 64bit + resize2fs... this is Not Good George Spelvin
2012-11-14 5:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-14 6:42 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-14 7:12 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-14 7:20 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-14 20:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-14 21:04 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-11-14 23:26 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-14 23:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-15 3:43 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-14 6:27 ` George Spelvin
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