Re: Problems with mkfs.xfs

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:37:52AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> There is unfortunately no workaround for this, XFS on a floppy would
> have been a nice test bed for people, however, there are some minimum
> sizes in XFS which prevent this. For deadlock reasons, the log must be
> twice the size of the largest potential transaction we can have, this
> makes the minimum log size 1200 4K blocks which is already over 4Mbytes.

Just curious: which transaction could need 600 4K blocks? 

-Andi