growfs reporting negative sectors beyond 2^31

[Lukas Ertl]

Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> While playing around with growfs I noticed that it prints the sector
> numbers for the super-block backups on sectors beyond 2^31 as negative
> numbers. I ran into this issue while trying to grow a 1TB filesystem to
> a 1.5TB filesystem.
> 
> Example:
> [snip]
> 2142948448, 2143324800, 2143701152, 2144077504, 2144453856, 2144830208,
> 2145206560, 2145582912, 2145959264,
> 2146335616, 2146711968, 2147088320, 2147464672, -2147126272,
> -2146749920, -2146373568, -2145997216, -2145620864,
> -2145244512, -2144868160, -2144491808, -2144115456, -2143739104,
> -2143362752, -2142986400, -2142610048, -2142233696,
> [snip]
> 
> Is this something to worry about as far as file system consistency goes,
> or is it just a cosmetic problem with the printout?

It's just cosmetic, as far as I can see.

cheers,
le

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