Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:31:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:31:32 -0500 Received: from [208.48.139.185] ([208.48.139.185]:44524 "HELO forty.greenhydrant.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:31:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:31:14 -0800 From: David Rees To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps Message-ID: <20020313123114.A11658@greenhydrant.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Rees , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've got an interesting situation here where mke2fs and mkreiserfs core dump with the message: File size limit exceeded (core dumped) I recently upgraded the storage device in this machine from a single IDE disk to a mirrored RAID running off a 3ware controller. The disk was living off the primary controller as hda, I have since moved it to hdc and the cdrom to hda. The kernel is 2.4.18-rc4 + Trond's NFS_ALL patch. Some info: # fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 638 5124703+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 639 4982 34893180 83 Linux # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 97684760 sda 8 1 16033 sda1 8 2 1052257 sda2 8 3 40965750 sda3 8 4 55649160 sda4 22 0 40020624 hdc 22 1 5124703 hdc1 22 2 34893180 hdc2 # mke2fs /dev/hdc1 mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 641280 inodes, 1281175 blocks 64058 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 40 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16032 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736 File size limit exceeded (core dumped) # >From dmesg: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: ASUS CD-S500/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: 80041248 sectors (40981 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(66) hda: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Anyone have any ideas? Could it be a bios setting? Thanks, Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/