From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:34765 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965199AbeFZCXR (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:23:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20180425154602.GA8546@bombadil.infradead.org> <1910962.ItDVNtUG5Q@merkaba> From: Michael Schmitz Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:23:16 +1200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? To: jdow Cc: Martin Steigerwald , Geert Uytterhoeven , Matthew Wilcox , David Sterba , Linux FS Devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , linux-m68k Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Joanne, Martin's boot log (including your patch) says: Jun 19 21:19:09 merkaba kernel: [ 7891.843284] sdb: RDSK (512) sdb1 (LNX^@)(res 2 spb 1) sdb2 (JXF^D)(res 2 spb 1) sdb3 (DOS^C)(res 2 spb 4) Jun 19 21:19:09 merkaba kernel: [ 7891.844055] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk so it's indeed a case of self inflicted damage (RDSK (512) means 512 byte blocks) and can be worked around by using a different block size. Your memory serves right indeed - blocksize is in 512 bytes units. I'll still submit a patch to Jens anyway as this may bite others yet. Cheers, Michael On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:40 PM, jdow wrote: > BTW - anybody who uses 512 byte blocks with an Amiga file system is a fam= n > dool. > > If memory serves the RDBs think in blocks rather than bytes so it should > work up to 2 gigablocks whatever your block size is. 512 blocks is > 2199023255552 bytes. But that wastes just a WHOLE LOT of disk in block ma= ps. > Go up to 4096 or 8192. The latter is 35 TB. > > {^_^} > On 20180624 02:06, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11: >>> >>> test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D43511 >>> indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if >>> Martin now submits the patch, all should be well? >> >> >> Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it: >> >> I do not care enough about this, in order to motivate myself preparing >> the a patch from Joanne Dow=C2=B4s fix. >> >> I am not even using my Amiga boxes anymore, not even the Sam440ep which >> I still have in my apartment. >> >> So RDB support in Linux it remains broken for disks larger 2 TB, unless >> someone else does. >> >> Thanks. >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html