linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck (git) on ext4: unsupported feature(s): huge

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Message-ID: <47FCD828.9020204@yahoo.de>
Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:52:24 +0200
From:	supersud501 <supersud501@...oo.de>
To:	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@...il.com>
CC:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck (git) on ext4: unsupported feature(s): huge_file

Calvin Walton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:36 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> supersud501 wrote:
>>> i get this when trying to run e2fsck on my ext4dev filesystem (kernel 
>>> 2.6.25-rc8), extents enabled:
>>>
>>> e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
>>> /dev/loop2 has unsupported feature(s): huge_file
>>> e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!
>>>
>>> just updated to the git-version of e2fsprogs, same error. i know e2fsck 
>>> worked once with the drive (~2 months ago).
>>>
>>> what can i do?
>> Do you in fact have any very large files on the disk?
> 
> I'm just curious - if I know for sure that I don't have any huge files
> on my disk, would I be able to do something like use debugfs to simply
> clear the flag?
> 

interests mee, too. and how are "huge files" defined? thought they are 
 >4gb files?

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