linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3] e2fsprogs: misc/mke2fs.8.in: Correct valid cluster-size values

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:03:37 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Srivathsa Dara <srivathsa.d.dara@...cle.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, adilger@...ger.ca, djwong@...nel.org,
        rajesh.sivaramasubramaniom@...cle.com, junxiao.bi@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] e2fsprogs: misc/mke2fs.8.in: Correct valid cluster-size values


On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:30:37 +0000, Srivathsa Dara wrote:
> According to the mke2fs man page, the supported cluster-size values
> for an ext4 filesystem are 2048 to 256M bytes. However, this is not
> the case.
> 
> When mkfs is run to create a filesystem with following specifications:
> * 1k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 32M
> * 2k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 64M
> * 4k blocksize and cluster-size greater than 128M
> mkfs fails with "Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while trying
> to create journal" error. In general, when the cluster-size to blocksize
> ratio is greater than 32k, mkfs fails with this error.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] e2fsprogs: misc/mke2fs.8.in: Correct valid cluster-size values
      commit: 87cbb381f2e2fb9aab316187a70acca9f6d5061b

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>