linux-ext4 - Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not.

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Date:	Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:06:13 +0100
From:	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
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Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not.

Thanks Eric.  Here is the original thread (see also the replies).

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October/157618.html

In theory I could test this up to ~ 2**63, but it requires a number of
bugfixes and changes in qemu.  Obviously that size is ridiculous :-)
but it may reveal bugs that wouldn't be found by ordinary testing.

Rich.

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