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

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:27:57 PM +0100 Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +, 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 > partitio

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

2001-01-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:15:56PM +, 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 wi

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

2001-01-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +, 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=4

[2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel

2001-01-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, if I run mkreiserfs on a 32megablocks /dev/loop0 it will lock up while generating the journaling information. Sometimes at 20% sometimes at 60%. Since mkreiserfs is not using the kernel module i guess this is a loop device problem in 2.4.1 kernels. There is no dmesg message at the lookup.