Re: TAKE - restrict xfs inodes to 32 bits

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:51, Rupa Schomaker wrote:
> Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > No, there is no chance - it takes a 1Tbyte filesystem for the overflow
> > to occur. 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> What happens when one uses xfs_growfs to grow an existing < 1T
> filesystem to > 1T?

Well, if I fix one line of code it will work, although there are some
pathological cases where you could grow a full filesystem from just less
that 1 Tbyte to 2 Tbytes and end up with lots of room and no inode
space, although in practice this should not happen.

Steve

> 
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> -rupa
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