From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:43:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:43:49 -0500 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([194.252.70.162]:46345 "EHLO zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:43:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:43:24 +0200 From: Matti Aarnio To: Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs Message-ID: <20011120224324.O2682@mea-ext.zmailer.org> In-Reply-To: <1006272138.1263.3.camel@somewhere.auc.ca> <20011120113316.R1308@lynx.no> <1006288154.1863.0.camel@somewhere.auc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1006288154.1863.0.camel@somewhere.auc.ca>; from tack@auc.ca on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:29:14PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:29:14PM -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:33, Andreas Dilger wrote: ... > > Can you please try some intermediate kernels (2.4.10 would be a good > > start, because it had some major changes in this area, and then go > > forward and back depending whether it works or not). > > 2.4.10 does NOT work. > 2.4.9 DOES work. And noting that mkfs and fsck operate on block DEVICE, no such limits should be applied anyway. Right ? > So clearly something happened in 2.4.10 which broke this. Please let me > know if I can be of any more help. > > Regards, > Jason. /Matti Aarnio