On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Just for others' info - the fill_super change has been tested in the past
> > by Sonny Rao at IBM also. e2fsprogs has supported this for a long time
> > already.
>
> I have a vague memory that there's some piece of metadata (per-block-group
> info, I think) which will overflow at 8kb blocksize. I say this in the
> hope that you'll remmeber what it was ;)
The limiting factor is bg_free_blocks_count (and to some extent,
possibly bg_free_inodes_dir), which is a 16 bit field. At 8kb, the
default block group size is 8kb * 8 bits/byte == 65536. At 16kb, a
block group size of 131072 would overflow bg_free_blocks_count. You
could of course artificially limit the block group size to 65536 for
block sizes > 16kb. The better thing to do would be to use the extra
space in the per-block group metadata to extend those fields to 32
bits.
- Ted
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