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From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@dplanet.ch>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:00:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15wQSN-0000Hg-00@lttit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15wQTJ-0001v1-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15wQDj-0000HT-00@lttit> <E15wQTJ-0001v1-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:37 +0100 (BST)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> glibc 2.1.x has minimal support for 64bit file size handling. You
probably
> need to build 64bit aware tools. You might also be hitting a device bug
that
> seems to be in Linus kernel where devices are inheriting the file size
limit
> of the underlying fs the /dev node is on. However I thought that was
long
> fixed.
> 

The latter seems to be the case because Vita Samel (hope I got this right)
just reported that "Booting into 2.4.10-ac10" fixed the problem. Perhaps
it once was fixed and later defixed?

Bye
Tim



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24 15:09 fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6 Tim Tassonis
2001-10-24 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 15:45   ` Tim Tassonis
2001-10-24 16:01     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 16:00       ` Tim Tassonis [this message]
2001-10-24 16:12         ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 16:28           ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-24 16:34             ` Tim Tassonis
2001-10-24 16:39               ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-24 16:42               ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-25  0:34                 ` Tim Tassonis
2001-10-25  1:03                   ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-25 15:56                     ` bill davidsen
2001-10-25 16:25                       ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-31 17:16                         ` Bill Davidsen
2001-10-31 17:29                           ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-10-25 10:04             ` Vitezslav Samel
2001-10-24 15:40 ` Vitezslav Samel
2001-10-24 16:03   ` Gerhard Mack

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