From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Sully Message-Id: <20020109224112.GG30764@electricrain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [linux-lvm] lvm snapshot fails Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Jan 9 16:42:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I'm attempting to create a snapshot volume for a 50GB partition, however the lvcreate fails with the following error: $ lvcreate -L1G -s -n wwwsnap /dev/vg00/www lvcreate -- WARNING: the snapshot will be automatically disabled once it gets full lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64.00 KB for "/dev/vg00/wwwsnap" File size limit exceeded strace shows it's getting a EFBIG error - open("/dev/sdc1", O_WRONLY) = 4 _llseek(4, 214756169728, [214756169728], SEEK_SET) = 0 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 512) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) --- +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++ This is with 2.4.17, patched with 1.0.1 and 1.0.1 userland tools. Here's my pvscan: pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc1" of VG "vg00" [457.98 GB / 257.98 GB free] pvscan -- total: 1 [457.99 GB] / in use: 1 [457.99 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] Is there a special 64bit flag I need to set somewhere to allow the lvmtools to deal with a device that large? -D -- When Hell freezes over, I'll snowboard there too.