From: Valerie Clement Subject: Re: Creating a >32bit blocks filesystem. Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:57:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4641E13D.906@bull.net> References: <20070503140804.463b20e1@naruto> <463B4A1B.4070201@bull.net> <20070507111952.7868bc1c@gara> <4641BBB7.8020904@bull.net> <20070509085547.4785bf7d@gara> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Jose R. Santos" Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:39605 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757890AbXEIO6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:58:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070509085547.4785bf7d@gara> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Jose R. Santos wrote: > I think this has more to do with the fact that I'm on a 32bit > architecture and there are still a couple places where blocks are > represented using "unsigned long". I'm trying to get access to a 64b= it > arch to confirm this. >=20 > -JRS >=20 Oh, I didn't catch that you use a 32-bit system. On 32-bit architectures, the page cache index size imposes a 16TB limit= =20 on the filesystem size (with 4KB blocksize). So you need a 64-bit syste= m=20 for your test. Val=C3=A9rie