Re: Nasty bug?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> The numbers are not sequential, but they are monotonically increasing :-)
> The difference between any 2 values is 8388608. Now if these are 512 byte 
> sectors, this is exactly 4294967296 bytes which is 2^32...
> 
> This won't help you directly... but might give somebody some idea :-)

The maximum AG size is 4G, for a very large fliesystem.  mkfs.xfs writes
allocation group headers at the start of each AG.

howver, if this was split into small pieces & mkfs'd, then the AGs should
not be that large...  hm.

-Eric