Re: setrlimit and RLIM_INFINITY causing fsck failure, 2.4.18

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-20T02:04:27Z

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:10:18PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> The other fix is that the filesize limit *really* shouldn't apply to
> block devices. We should probably do both fixes.

The filesize limit did not apply to block devices until ~2.4.10, so
this manifestation of the bug is a recent introduction.

The whole rlimit mess itself is a might bit awful since it and the
nonstandard 2.2 file size extensions resulted in a horribly conflicting
glob of problems. *sigh*

-ben
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