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To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test9 + LFS
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:

> I attempted to create a 4gb sparce file with dd.  It failed.
> I created one that was 2.1gb in size which worked.  Then I appeneded more
> junk to the end of the file making it over 2.2gb.
> 
> doing an ls -l shows:
> ls: x: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> NOTE: this worked in 2.4.0-test6 and I believe it stopped working around
> test8, but I'm not sure.  May have been around test7.

Previous kernels allowed up to 4gb to be returned by the old stat.
Upgrade your glibc and fileutils -- most recent distributions (Red Hat,
SuSE, ...) are LFS ready, and the only reports I've seen about this
concerned Slackware.

		-ben

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