From: Jason Tackaberry <tack@auc.ca>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs
Date: 20 Nov 2001 15:29:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1006288154.1863.0.camel@somewhere.auc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120113316.R1308@lynx.no>
In-Reply-To: <1006272138.1263.3.camel@somewhere.auc.ca> <20011120113316.R1308@lynx.no>
Hi Andreas,
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:33, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Several people have reported problems like this also. What happens is
> that if you are logged on as a user, then su to root, it will fail. If
> you log in directly as root, it will work.
Yep, this is indeed the case.
> Can you please try some intermediate kernels (2.4.10 would be a good
> start, because it had some major changes in this area, and then go
> forward and back depending whether it works or not).
2.4.10 does NOT work.
2.4.9 DOES work.
So clearly something happened in 2.4.10 which broke this. Please let me
know if I can be of any more help.
Regards,
Jason.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-20 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-20 16:02 File size limit exceeded with mkfs Jason Tackaberry
2001-11-20 18:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-20 20:29 ` Jason Tackaberry [this message]
2001-11-20 20:43 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-11-20 23:56 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-20 23:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-21 0:24 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-20 23:21 ` Horst von Brand
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2001-11-22 10:21 Peter Seiderer
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