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SubjectRe: fdisk: "File size limit exceeded on fdisk" 2.4.10 to 2.4.13-pre6
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:01:37 +0100 (BST)
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> glibc 2.1.x has minimal support for 64bit file size handling. You
probably
> need to build 64bit aware tools. You might also be hitting a device bug
that
> seems to be in Linus kernel where devices are inheriting the file size
limit
> of the underlying fs the /dev node is on. However I thought that was
long
> fixed.
>

The latter seems to be the case because Vita Samel (hope I got this right)
just reported that "Booting into 2.4.10-ac10" fixed the problem. Perhaps
it once was fixed and later defixed?

Bye
Tim


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