Re: 2GB limit won't go away

[Chris Worley <chrisw@lnxi.com>]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 23:42, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Note that you should probably strace the failing "dd" command to ensure
> it is opening the file with O_LARGEFILE.  If not, it isn't a kernel
> problem but a tool problem instead.

# strace dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
...
open("./test.bigfile", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 1
...

But, it was a good suggestion.  The dd/seek does speed testing.

Thanks,

Chris

> On Jun 10, 2002  08:58 +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > Would following sequence of commans help?
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
> 
> Just as a tip for LFS testers, it is much easier to test with a sparse
> file instead of waiting for 2GB to be written to disk:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1k seek=1023M
> 
> (this puts you just short of the 2GB limit in case your seek is broken).