From: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Subject: Re: df and "Value too large for defined data type"
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:16:19 +0000
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To: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
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I'll probally send an email to the XFS list about this - the problem is
that we've done nothing different with the file system set up on this
server compared with the many others we have - i.e. the file systems
were set up with:

mkfs -t xfs /dev/sdb1

etc.

It's just that the file systems in question seem to be saying that the
number of inodes on the file system is 2^64  - whereas all the other XFS
file systems we have (of a similar size) have nowhere near 2^32 inodes
...

However, the one big difference is that the RAID array in question is
3.5TB - which is partioned on the RAID into 4 (i.e. Linux sees 4 devices
on different LUNs) - therefore the overall size of the RAID array is a
lot bigger than anything else we've used before (we don't have anything
else over 2TB) - and the version of xfsprogs used was very old
(1.3.17-0) ...

I'm going to remake one of the partitions with a newer version of
mkfs.xfs to see if that makes a difference ...

James Pearson

Greg Banks wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:30:47PM +0000, James Pearson wrote:
> > The underlying remote file system is XFS - which in this case appears to
> > be saying that it has 2^64 - 1 inodes - which doesn't seem correct...
> 
> XFS supports 64 bit inodes, so this can be correct if it's either
> 
> 1.  on Linux, and very recent, and mounted with the right options, or
> 
> 2.  on IRIX
> 
> Greg.
> --
> Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
> I don't speak for SGI.


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