Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261686AbTIYRGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:06:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261692AbTIYRGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:06:04 -0400 Received: from [170.180.5.203] ([170.180.5.203]:3081 "EHLO e151000n0.edmonson.k12.ky.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261686AbTIYRGC (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:06:02 -0400 Message-ID: <9A8F8D67DC8ED311BF3E0008C7B9A0ADBAA877@E151000N0> From: "Norris, Brent" To: "'Andreas Dilger'" , "Norris, Brent" Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: RE: 128G Limit in Reiserfs? Or the Kernel? Or something else? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:02:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 17 > Just FYI, we have lots of ext3 filesystems that are 2TB in > size, so I don't think it is an ext3 problem. What could be > happening though is that when you mke2fs the filesystem with > your IDE problem it wraps writes over 128GB back to zero and > overwrites the superblock so mount doesn't see the ext3 > superblock anymore. Great!!! Nice info. That goes a long way toward explaining why it wouldn't mount. It was so weird since mkfs.ext3 didn't error or anything, it just finished normally, but then nothing would mount the drive. Thanks again. Brent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/