Martin Jungowski wrote:
Martin,
This is what I get from my system on the binaries:
/sbin/mke2fs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped
/sbin/mkfs.ext4: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped
Not sure if this helps or not.
-Matt
Matt,
thanks. I tried that too, but the binaries themselves are 64-bit.
root/bebd1$ file /sbin/mke2fs /sbin/mke2fs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped root/bebd1$ file /sbin/mkfs.ext4 /sbin/mkfs.ext4: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped
What I meant by "underlying tools" and "32-bit" is the following statement, which - as of today - can still be found on the kernel.org Wiki (see http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto)
NOTE: Although very large fileystems are on ext4's feature list, current e2fsprogs currently still limits the filesystem size to 2^32 blocks (16T for a 4k block filesystem). Filesystems larger than 16T is one of the very next high-priority features to complete for ext4.
Thus there seems to be some 32-bit limit still implemented as we speak. Is there any way around it? I refuse to believe that Linux cannot handle partitions and filesystems larger than 16TB ;)
Martin
Ahhh yes.. with some research it appears the limitation IS still there and they are working on a "fix" bummer! -Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org