From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: 3GB limit? *2* GB limit?!
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233733240.5138.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oqvdrrrpaf.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:58 -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> I'm trying to experiment with ubifs on a 16GB USB stick. I've
> downloaded and built:
snip
> -----8<-----
> # uname -a
> Linux fishstick 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 4 05:23:36 UTC 2009 i686 AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> # ls -l /dev/mtd*
> ls: cannot access /dev/mtd*: No such file or directory
> # modprobe block2mtd block2mtd=/dev/sdj,128KiB
> # modprobe mtdchar
> # ls -l /dev/mtd*
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 90, 0 Feb 4 06:29 /dev/mtd0
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 90, 1 Feb 4 06:29 /dev/mtd0ro
> fishstick devices # ubiformat /dev/mtd0
> ubiformat: mtd0 (RAM-based), size 3246391296 bytes (3.0 GiB), 131072 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 1 bytes
> libscan: scanning eraseblock 16384 -- 66 % complete libmtd: error!: cannot seek mtd0 to offset 18446744071562067968
> error 22 (Invalid argument)
> ubiformat: error!: failed to scan mtd0 (/dev/mtd0)
> # fdisk /dev/sdj
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI
MTD user-space interface is 32-bit, and is simited by 2GiB. You have to
upgrade it to use larger devices.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 0:58 3GB limit? *2* GB limit?! Miles Nordin
2009-02-04 7:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-02-04 15:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-05 9:17 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-02-04 18:47 ` Miles Nordin
2009-02-05 9:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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