Re: XFS unhappy with large holey loopback and syncs

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:53:17AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> >
> >Yep - on x86-64. But the machine had 8GB of RAM, so if even that
> >runs out of memory something is wrong imho. How large allocations
> >would it need?
> >
> >-Andi
> >
> 
> 28 bytes per extent so in this case rather a lot. This could be

Assuming it created 300k extents that would be only ~8MB. That should
be no problem for a 8GB machine.

-Andi