Re: Bogus LBD patch

Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:48:04 -0600

On Jun 25, 2002 16:59 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> I found that ext2 has too much metadata for the amount of disc space I
> have for the sparse file approach to work.

You can easily change this by reducing the number of inodes created.
If you specify "mke2fs -N 1 <dev>" you will get the minimum possible
number of inodes created. There is currently a 16TB limit on ext2/3
filesystems, unless you are testing on a platform with 8kB+ PAGE_SIZE
and have the e2fsprogs from the BK repository, in which case you can
create 8kB blocks (for 32TB filesystems).

Cheers, Andreas

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