Re: reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes

[James Sutherland]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > 32 megaBLOCK?? How big is it in Mbytes?
> 
> Blocksize is 4k, mkreiserfs in my version is telling me it can not generate
> partitions smaller than 32M but it is not true, i have to do
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096

That just creates a 128Mb file of zeros... This sounds a bit small. Why
"size=4096"??

> > You do know reiserfs defaults to
> > building a 32 Mbyte journal on the device, I take it?
> 
> Yes, I wonder if it is a Error in mkreiserfs to require 128MB.

Have you tried using a smaller blocksize to mkreiserfs?

James.