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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:56:00 -0800
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To: Adam McKenna <adam-dated-1010972538.f82778@flounder.net>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem creation problems with 2.4.17
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Adam McKenna wrote:
> 
> I'm having some problems creating a large filesystem on linux kernels
> 2.4.17.  I am using Debian Potato with Adrian Bunk's updates for
> running 2.4.  The filesystem is approx. 260GB and is on an AMI MegaRAID
> RAID-5 stripe.
> 
> ...
> write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32768)
> = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
> --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) ---
> +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++

Kernel bug.  Apply this patch:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18pre2aa1/00_blkdev-ulimit-1

Or run mke2fs from a fresh root login (not via `su')
or fiddle with ulimit to set it unlimited.

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