From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Curt Hartung" <curt@northarc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raw devices broken in 2.6.1?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:38:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129163852.4028c689.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c501c3e6b9$67225f70$0700000a@irrosa>
"Curt Hartung" <curt@northarc.com> wrote:
>
> New to the list, checked the FAQ and nothing on this. I'm using raw devices
> for a large database application (highwinds-software) and under 2.4 it runs
> fine, but under 2.6 I get: Program terminated with signal 25, File size
> limit exceeded. (SIGXFSZ) As soon as it tries to grow the raw device pase 2G
> (might be 4G, I'll go back and check)
>
> ulimit reports: file size (blocks) unlimited
> but running the process as root and setrlimit RLIMIT_FSIZE to RLIM_INFINITY
> just to be sure yields the same result.
Possibly whatever version of 2.4 you're using forgot to check for
O_LARGEFILE. But the code looks to be OK.
> I can easily provide a short test program to trigger it, the call I'm using
> is pwrite64(...);
Yes, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-30 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 22:44 Raw devices broken in 2.6.1? Curt Hartung
2004-01-30 0:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-30 1:30 ` Raw devices broken in 2.6.1? AND- 2.6.1 I/O degraded? Curt Hartung
2004-01-30 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-30 6:34 ` Curt
2004-01-30 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-30 7:13 ` Nick Piggin
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