linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/5][64-BIT] Miscellaneous e2fsprogs 64-bit patches

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:56:15 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@...hat.com>
CC:	Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@...com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][64-BIT] Miscellaneous e2fsprogs 64-bit patches -
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Valerie Aurora Henson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:45:47PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:


>> but there is an interesting catch-22: how do I save its output?
>>
>> I can try the command line suggested in the manual page:
>>
>>   e2image -r <dev> - | bzip2 > image.bz2
>>
>> but it takes forever: I started a run on Saturday and it was not
>> done by Tuesday when I killed it - writing to the pipe at 4096 bytes
>> a pop is very slow.
>>
>> Or I can forego the compression and try to save to a file: it's sparse
>> (I only used 7GiB before it failed), but its nominal size exceeded the
>> maximum file size limit on ext4, at which point I start getting lseek
>> failures.

We really need some e2image format which encodes the sparseness, I think...

> The 16TB limit on ext4 files is an enormous pain for testing 64-bit
> (>= 16TB) file systems.  I keep intending to write some simple dm
> setup to concatenate two loopback files together, but instead I always
> install XFS and create a loopback file on an XFS partition.

For testing a large device, say /dev/sdb1 is 10GB large:

# TERABYTES=`expr 20 \* 1024 \* 1024 \* 1024 \* 2`   # 20 TB in sectors
# echo "0 $ERABYTES zero" | dmsetup create zero1
# echo "0 $TERABYTES snapshot /dev/mapper/zero1 /dev/sdb1 p 128" | \
   dmsetup create sparse1

This will create a 20TB sparse device called /dev/mapper/sparse1 that
has 10GB of actual storage space available. If more than 10GB of data is
written to this device, it will start returning I/O errors.

This is from Documentation/device-mapper/zero.txt

-Eric
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