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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: "Peter H. R|egg" <pruegg@eproduction.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with mke2fs on huge RAID-partition
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:47:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020208104739.M15496@lynx.turbolabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C640C90.E71E3F70@eproduction.ch>
In-Reply-To: <3C640C90.E71E3F70@eproduction.ch>; from pruegg@eproduction.ch on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:36:16PM +0100

On Feb 08, 2002  18:36 +0100, Peter H. R|egg wrote:
> My problem is: If I start mke2fs [1] on the device, it writes everything
> down until "Writing Superblocks...". The system then completly hangs.
> And yes, I did wait long enough (well, at least I think 15 hours should
> be enough ;-)
> 
> Is there a limitation in the maximum size of a partition (well, 400 GB is
> not that small...), may it be a (known) problem of mke2fs or the particular
> Kernel-Version, or does anyone have any suggestions where else to seek?

Well, I know for a fact that people have created such large ext2 filesystems.

> All RAID is done in software, using (at the moment) a Standard RedHat 7.2
> Kernel 2.4.7.

The first thing to do would be to update to the latest RH kernel.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08 17:36 Problem with mke2fs on huge RAID-partition Peter H. Rüegg
2002-02-08 17:47 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-02-08 18:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-09 19:57   ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-11 18:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-11 18:57       ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-11 20:57         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-12  9:10           ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-09 20:44  Rüegg, Peter H.

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