From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] statfs fails with EOVERFLOW Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:21:27 +0000 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040323132127.A322@infradead.org> References: <20040323130513.GB30984@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5lqX-0002Tp-4d for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:21:33 -0800 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B5lqW-0003S4-Lm for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:21:32 -0800 To: Olaf Kirch In-Reply-To: <20040323130513.GB30984@suse.de>; from okir@suse.de on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:05:13PM +0100 Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:05:13PM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote: > I am currently dealing with a 2.6 bug report concerning statfs failing > with EOVERFLOW. This happens on very large NFS file systems, and the > problem is obviously that by default, we set s_blocksize to the wtmult > value advertised by the server. If tbytes / wtmult exceeds 31 bits, statfs > will fail with EOVERFLOW (on 2.4 it would silently produce crap values). that's why we have statfs64 in 2.6, a program with the right LFS magic and a recentish glibc should use if for you. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs