Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs

From: Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 15:43:24 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:29:14PM -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:33, Andreas Dilger wrote:
...
> > Can you please try some intermediate kernels (2.4.10 would be a good
> > start, because it had some major changes in this area, and then go
> > forward and back depending whether it works or not).
>
> 2.4.10 does NOT work.
> 2.4.9 DOES work.

   And noting that mkfs and fsck operate on block DEVICE, no such
limits should be applied anyway. Right ?

> So clearly something happened in 2.4.10 which broke this. Please let me
> know if I can be of any more help.
>
> Regards,
> Jason.

/Matti Aarnio
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