From: Valerie Aurora Henson Subject: Re: 64-bit e2fsprogs tree for testing Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:36 -0500 Message-ID: <20090127052936.GB13163@shell> References: <20090123002815.GJ12643@shell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Tso To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42305 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbZA0F3i (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:38 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090123002815.GJ12643@shell> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:28:15PM -0500, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote: > Hi folks, > > The e2fsprogs 64-bit branch is available for public testing. This > branch adds support for creating, checking, etc. ext4 file systems > with more than 2^32 blocks - i.e., more than 16TB on most systems. > This is for TESTING ONLY - don't put any data you care about on it! > > The public git repository is available here: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/val/e2fsprogs.git > > The branch is "64bit". > > Known bugs: > > * compilation of programs using certain libe2p routines may fail > (chattr, lsattr) > * fsck will fail if directories contain blocks above the 32-bit > boundary I just finished and pushed the fix for the second item (64-bit dblists). Note that I'll be unavailable for the next week while I recover from shoulder surgery. -VAL