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Message-ID: <4AAA5B8B.3010905@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:15:39 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC V3] ext4: limit block allocations for	indirect-block
 files to < 2^32

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:57:38PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Problem is I don't quite trust debugfs etc to get it right, so when I
>> see < 32 bits, I'm not sure if it's really there, or if the
>> reporting/debug tool wrapped it ;)
> 
> Debugfs from pu branch definitely does get it right --- I've checked.
> 
> 	     	       		       	   - Ted

I couldn't get debugfs from pu to even load a large filesystem, odd...

# debugfs/debugfs ../bigfile
debugfs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
../bigfile: Filesystem too large to use legacy bitmaps while reading 
block bitmap

I haven't yet looked into this...

-Eric
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