From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: 2GB limit won't go away
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:58:22 +0400
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To: Chris Worley <chrisw@lnxi.com>
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Hello!

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:27:27AM -0600, Chris Worley wrote:

> I do an initrd, to load lvm modules and register the lvm devices... so I
> changed the linuxrc in the initrd to mount my root fs with the "conv"
> option from within my Linuxrc:
> 	/bin/mount -o conv /dev/worley/newsys /mnt
> 	/bin/umount /dev/worley/newsys

That would work.

> It fed back the message:
> 	reiserfs: converting 3.5.x filesystem to the new format

That confirms that everything went fine.

> But, I'm still not able to create large files:
> 	# dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880
> 	dd: writing `./test.bigfile': File too large
> 	2097153+0 records in
> 	2097152+0 records out
> 	# ls -l ./test.bigfile
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2147483648 Jun 09 01:17 ./test.bigfile

Is this file located on the converted volume (/dev/worley/newsys)?
Would following sequence of commans help?
rm -rf ./test.bigfile ; dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.bigfile bs=1024 count=5242880

Bye,
    Oleg