Re: [ext2resize] Load testing: ext2resize complains about a bug

['Andreas Dilger' <ad...@cl...>]

On Dec 09, 2002  17:58 -0800, Poul Petersen wrote:
> > Sadly, ext2prepare does not work with the new ext3 code.  I am such a
> > procrastinator, shoot me.  We do have a patch for mke2fs which will
> > prepare a new filesystem for a 1000x growth from the initial size, but
> > we _really_ need ext2prepare for the new ext3 format to 
> > handle existing filesystems also.
> 
> 	I'm confused about this - I though I had seen a post from Robert
> Walsh stating that he had successfully resized ext3 file systems from 1GB to
> 1TB - wait, was that for offline resizing? If ext2prepare doesn't work, how
> does one avoid the 16GB boundary limit (with 4k blocks)? I have the mke2fs
> patch from the ext2resize sourceforge page, but I don't see anything about
> avoiding this limit and the resize does fail if I try to increase beyond the
> 16GB boundary.

You need to run "mke2fs -O resize_inode" in order to activate this
functionality.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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