From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263027AbUEFVJ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 17:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263033AbUEFVJ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 17:09:56 -0400 Received: from [81.219.144.6] ([81.219.144.6]:36110 "EHLO pointblue.com.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263027AbUEFVJy (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 17:09:54 -0400 Message-ID: <409AA99C.2060301@pointblue.com.pl> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:09:48 +0100 From: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niccolo Rigacci Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2Gb file size limit on 2.4.24, LVM and ext3? References: <20040506172152.GB17351@paros.rigacci.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506172152.GB17351@paros.rigacci.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- GJ