From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Peter Hartley <pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setrlimit and RLIM_INFINITY causing fsck failure, 2.4.18
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:04:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319210403.C27655@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006701c1cf6d$d9701230$2701230a@electronic> <20020319191018.A23000@thunk.org>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:10:18PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The other fix is that the filesize limit *really* shouldn't apply to
> block devices. We should probably do both fixes.
The filesize limit did not apply to block devices until ~2.4.10, so
this manifestation of the bug is a recent introduction.
The whole rlimit mess itself is a might bit awful since it and the
nonstandard 2.2 file size extensions resulted in a horribly conflicting
glob of problems. *sigh*
-ben
--
"A man with a bass just walked in,
and he's putting it down
on the floor."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-20 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-19 17:45 setrlimit and RLIM_INFINITY causing fsck failure, 2.4.18 Peter Hartley
2002-03-19 14:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-19 18:20 ` Peter Hartley
2002-03-19 18:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 10:12 ` [PATCH] " Peter Hartley
2002-03-19 18:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 18:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 0:10 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-20 2:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-03-20 10:09 ` Peter Hartley
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