From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20111004042814.GO6684@thunk.org> References: <4E8A2F3F.30700@sandeen.net> <4E8A859C.2070501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , ext4 development To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:58237 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750966Ab1JDE2R (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:28:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E8A859C.2070501@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:03:40PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > It comes up with too many inodes, then tries to reduce the count, > but the "waste not want not" logic bumps it back up... ipg eventually > goes "below" 0 but it's unsigned so it goes on in this loop forever. Oh, this is because of the fact that we can't have more than 2**32 inodes, right? Doh! > Some of this is my fault... I put that retry logic in years ago. :( > > I'll see what I can do to fix it up. Many thanks. I've fixed the other issues you've pointed out. Check out the next branch on github... - Ted