Re: 2Gb file size limit on 2.4.24, LVM and ext3?

[Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>]

Niccolo Rigacci wrote:

>Hi to all!
>
>I got a very strange problem: I can create files larger than 2
>Gb (even 5 Gb), but I can't read them back.
>
>- The simple "cat" command fails with:
>  # ls -la pippo
>  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2147483648 May  6 17:03 pippo
>  # cat pippo
>  cat: pippo: Operation not permitted
>
>- A file just 2kb under 2Gb, reads fine.
>
>- If I do an "strace cat pippo" it works fine! So how can
>  I trace the problem further?
>
>- The partition is an ext3 over LVM, kernel 2.4.24. Debian Woody
>  (glibc-2.2.5-11.5). Pentium 4 2.80GHz.
>  I tried both a quoted filesystem and a non quoted with same
>  results.
>
>- On a very similar system I have no problem, the main
>  difference is using LVM here.
>
>Is there a known issue? Can someone tell me how can trace down
>the problem?
>
>  
>
What's your glibc version ?

Old glibces didn't support large files.

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GJ