reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel)

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 17:27:57 EST


On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> 32 megaBLOCK?? How big is it in Mbytes?

Blocksize is 4k, mkreiserfs in my version is telling me it can not generate
partitions smaller than 32M but it is not true, i have to do

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096

> You do know reiserfs defaults to
> building a 32 Mbyte journal on the device, I take it?

Yes, I wonder if it is a Error in mkreiserfs to require 128MB.

Greetings
Bernd

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