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To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
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Subject: Re: Does e2fsprogs-1.26 work on mips?
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"H . J . Lu" wrote:
> 
> I got
> 
> [root@localhost e2fsprogs-1.26]# ./e2fsck/e2fsck -f /dev/hda1
> e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> File size limit exceeded
> 
> on Linux/mipsel. /dev/hda1 is a 7GB ext3 partition. e2fsprogs-1.23
> works fine. Strace
> 
> 

Common problem - it's due to internal API changes in resource
limits.  You need to ensure that your maximum file size
is set to `unlimited'.  Kernel is currently applying file
size limits to block devices (which is broken) and I
think e2fsprogs' attempt to set sile size limits to
RLIM_INFINITY gets broken by a consipiracy between the
kernel change and glibc headers.