Filesystem too large...

[Brandon Evans]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 03, 2006  17:16 -0700, Brandon Evans wrote:
>> I need to setup a 3.27TB ext3 filesystem using -i 1024 and -b 1024.
>>
>> When I try to format this partition I get the "Filesystem too large." 
>> error.  Are there any plans to update these limits?  are there any 
>> patches already available that I can try out?  Or am I just SOL here?

> The other question is why you want to have a 3TB filesystem with 1kB
> blocks, unless you are consistently creating very small files...

The server I am preparing is a sw-soft virtuozzo backup server which 
requires the 1kB blocks.  The small blocks are need for the magic links 
it uses in the virtual environment.


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   Brandon Evans

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