From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 07:28:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 07:28:28 -0500 Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.113]:2312 "HELO smtp016.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 07:28:19 -0500 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 12:28:21 +0000 From: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problems creating filsystems and with dd Reply-To: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011110122822Z280623-17408+13011@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 8th October I posted the following : > I have just installed a Maxtor 30GB drive as /dev/hdc in my SuSE 7.0 > system which has a vanilla 2.4.10 kernel. I found that I could write the > partition table and create a small ext2 partition for /boot plus 768MB of > swap. Creation of the main ext2 filesystem on /hdc7 failed (before the > inode tables even began to be written), with "file size limit exceeded". > The same problem recurred every time I tried - and I did try various > combinations of partition size. I see the same error message when trying > to change partition table flags. The problem is identical using fdisk, > cfdisk and parted. I have no file limits set in ulimit and I do notthink > that this is the problem. > > I eventually put the same drive as /dev/hdc in another box running a stock > SuSE 2.2.16 kernel and creation of the filesystems completed without any > problem. I have also verified this by booting this box using SuSE's 2.2.16 rescue kernel. > > Any ideas? Alan Cox responded : >Obvious one to check would be to see if when 2.4.10 acquired the page >cache changes someone backed out the device picks up underlying file size limit >bug fix that the -ac tree has and went to Linus. >It really sounds like that happened. I have seen the same problem with subsequent kernels down to 2.4.14, which I just installed. I have also found the file size limit exceeded error when trying to back up with dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 bs=16k, where both partitions are 7.5 GB. Here again, I do not see the problem if I revert to 2.2.16. I was wondering (a) if the problems are related, and (b) whether a fix is likely soon. I am not subscribed, so a cc to me from any responder would be kind. Thanks, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com