linux-ext4 - Re: 64 bit support for ext4 problem

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:35:16 -0500
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
Cc:	anton.andreev@....uni-sofia.bg, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64 bit support for ext4 problem

On Jul 31, 2007  11:39 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote:
> Ext4 supports 48-bit physical block numbers, not yet 64-bit physical 
> block numbers; this is due to the use of extents mapping.
> 
> If you want to use the extent format (mount -t ext4dev -o extents), I 
> think you should use the latest version of e2fsprogs available here:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.40.2.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.40.2.tar.gz
> This version should integrate the extents capability.

Actually, I don't think the official e2fsprogs-1.40 supports extents yet?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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