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

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Message-ID: <20111004042814.GO6684@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:28:14 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs'ing a 48-bit fs... or not.

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:03:40PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> It comes up with too many inodes, then tries to reduce the count,
> but the "waste not want not" logic bumps it back up... ipg eventually
> goes "below" 0 but it's unsigned so it goes on in this loop forever.

Oh, this is because of the fact that we can't have more than 2**32
inodes, right?  Doh!

> Some of this is my fault... I put that retry logic in years ago.  :(
> 
> I'll see what I can do to fix it up.

Many thanks.  I've fixed the other issues you've pointed out.  Check
out the next branch on github...

					- Ted
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