From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266476AbUA2Wqv (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:46:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266481AbUA2Wqv (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:46:51 -0500 Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.46]:53167 "EHLO grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266476AbUA2Wqu (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:46:50 -0500 Message-ID: <01c501c3e6b9$67225f70$0700000a@irrosa> From: "Curt Hartung" To: Subject: Raw devices broken in 2.6.1? Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:44:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. I can easily provide a short test program to trigger it, the call I'm using is pwrite64(...); -Curt