Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:32:38 -0500 | | From | Mike Panetta <> | | Subject | LFS (2+GB) problems. |
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Just resently I have started messing with the lfs facilities now in place in the devel kernels and I have run into a few problems.
A bit of info on what I had to do to get the stuff to work (not problems just general info)
o Install new glibc 2.1.3 snapshot (previous versions didnt know of stat64 syscall?) o Rebuilt fileutils to try and fix a problem (see below it didnt fix anything unfortunately.) o I ran the try-lfs program to create a file it maxed out at 4TB. This seems ok?
Here are my problems:
o I can create files larger than 4GB BUT I cannot remove them cleanly. o On a reboot e2fsck truncates any file larger than 4GB to 4GB.
I am not sure if these are userspace or kernel space problems... But I do know that I now have a fully LFS aware rm... (I recompiled fileutils.) and it still doesnt seem to work. However it definately looks like somewhere a 32Bit number is being coerced into a 64Bit one... esp since 4GB is exactly 2^32...
Also... the first time I ran e2fsck it complained to me about having a large file on the FS... It said I needed to turn on some flag in the superblock (I cant remember the name) to enable LFS support... How do I turn it on if e2fsck didnt already? What is the flag named? Is there any real docs on how to set up LFS in linux? I cant seem to find any.
Any help in this issue greatly appreciated!
-- Mike Panetta
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