Re: E2fsprogs master branch now has all 64-bit patch applied

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From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 9:17 am

On 2010-06-22, at 03:15, Hsuan-Ting wrote:
2010/6/22 <tytso@mit.edu>


You don't need to modify mke2fs for this, just run "mke2fs -O 64bit ..." to tell it to create the filesystem with this feature flag set.


You can't simply set this flag on an existing filesystem and expect anything except corruption to result.


Yes, that you can't just set this flag on an existing filesystem and expect it to work.  The only possibility to do this is to have resize2fs move the inode tables in groups where there are group descriptor tables (as if it were growing the filesystem) and then write 64-byte group descriptors.

Cheers, Andreas





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Re: E2fsprogs master branch now has all 64-bit patch applied, Andreas Dilger, (Tue Jun 22, 9:17 am)
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