Le Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:59:11 +0000
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org écrivait:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202127
> 
> --- Comment #15 from daimh@umich.edu ---
> I have a few back and forth with Broadcom support. He checked some
> logs generated by their standard error check script and the logs
> looks fine to him.
> 
> He asked to run mkfs.ext4 on the block device, it failed with an
> error message "mkfs.ext4: Size of device (0x22c97a0000
> blocks) /dev/sda too big to create a filesystem using a blocksize of
> 4096."
> 
> Then he asked me if I can create XFS and EXT4 on a smaller partition.
> I fdisked the block device to two smaller partitions, one is 2T the
> other is 50T. mkfs.ext4 worked on both partition, but mkfs.xfs still
> reports the same error.
> 
> Then I was told to contact you guys again. Here is his latest reply.
> 
> "I think it is a xfs issue here.  Can you go back to the developer ?
> What were the changes from 4.17 to 4.19 ?
> 
> If the problem is caused by our firmware, ext4 would have failed."
> 

By the way does making an LV atop this device work? Then making a FS in
this LV?

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