Re: ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!

Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> Sun, 18 May 2008 20:32:19 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 2008-05-18 17:38, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> On 2.6.24.4-64.fc8, I createed and mounted a filesystem like this:
>> 
>>   mke2fs -m0 -b 1024 -R stride=64 -I 128 -i 2048 -j  -L mail -O
>>   dir_index,sparse_super -v /dev/sdc1
>
> I cannot reproduce it any more if I reformat omitting "-b 1024".
> Maybe it would reappear with 200K * 4 = 800K files?

In that case you might want to switch the filesystems.