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

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:31:13 +0100

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:15:56PM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096
>
> That just creates a 128Mb file of zeros... This sounds a bit small. Why
> "size=4096"??

because i am too tired to calculate. mkreiserfs wants 32768 (32*1024) blocks
with a size of 4k. I created the smallest possible image to test reiserfs.

> > Yes, I wonder if it is a Error in mkreiserfs to require 128MB.
>
> Have you tried using a smaller blocksize to mkreiserfs?

Sure I have.

Greetings
Bernd

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