Comment 4 for bug 1763511

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 1763511] Re: DataSourceSmartOS should default to ext4

ah.yeah, you're probably right.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:02 AM, Mike Gerdts <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I think we've been avoiding this issue so far because the file system is
> being created without partitioning the disk (layout: False). With "layout:
> False", I'm guessing that whether gpt or mbr is specified makes no
> difference.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Scott Moser <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > You probably need to change table_type mbr to gpt too if the point is
> > big disks. In fact it might just be the mbr table that is limiting you.
> >
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> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763511
> >
> > Title:
> > DataSourceSmartOS should default to ext4
> >
> > Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu:
> > New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > As reported in Joyent bug IMAGE-1103, ext3 doesn't work with large
> > ephemeral drives.
> >
> > 2018-03-30 23:36:26,529 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed during filesystem
> > operation
> > Failed to exec of '['/sbin/mkfs.ext3', '/dev/vdb', '-L', 'ephemeral0',
> > '-F']':
> > Unexpected error while running command.
> > Command: ['/sbin/mkfs.ext3', '/dev/vdb', '-L', 'ephemeral0', '-F']
> > Exit code: 1
> > Reason: -
> > Stdout:
> > Stderr: mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
> > mkfs.ext3: Size of device (0x100000000 blocks) /dev/vdb too big
> > to be expressed
> > in 32 bits using a blocksize of 4096.
> >
> > The default should switch to ext4. It so happens that this matches
> > the default in DataSourceAzure.py.
> >
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> Title:
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