linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] resize2fs: Check number of group descriptors only if meta

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Message-ID: <172982841322.4001088.12864574795422106135.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:53:51 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resize2fs: Check number of group descriptors only if meta_bg is disabled


On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:19:26 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When meta_bg feature is enabled, the total number of group descriptors
> is not really limiting the filesystem size. So there's no reason to
> check it in that case. This allows resize2fs to resize filesystems past
> 256TB boundary similarly as the kernel can do it.
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] resize2fs: Check number of group descriptors only if meta_bg is disabled
      commit: ad56ccaae8b6d69350273c01ae2f72a66df245e0

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