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SubjectRe: Random "File size limit exceeded" under 2.4
FWIW, I've been using this over-engineered, under-tested command line
utility to run e2fsck on our older distributions:

http://web.irridia.com/info/linux/unflimit.c

It works like "nice" or "time", but sets the proper RLIM_INFINITY
filesize limit for the inheriting subshell. For example:

unflimit e2fsck /dev/sda3

The boot-time fscks work fine, but in multiuser I'm extremely lucky to
get it to work without this.

The kernel patch below would work, I expect, but I think it's not
necessarily the Right Thing To Do. If Andrew is right, is anyone
looking at why block devices (or fsck?) are honoring the filesize limit?

Thanks,
--
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:33:19PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
| In article <3C0E813D.F5B1F84E@zip.com.au>,
| Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
| >Derek Glidden wrote:
| >>
| >> I've been experiencing random and occasional encounters with "File size
| >> limit exceeded" errors under 2.4 kernels when trying to make
| >> filesystems.
| >
| >I don't know if anyone has come forth to fix this yet.
| >
| >Apparently it's something to do with your shell setting
| >rlimits, and block devices are (bogusly) honouring those
| >settings.
|
| Perhaps the old app is calling sys_old_getrlimit() from
| linux/kernel/sys.c. It truncates rlimits to 0x7FFFFFFF
| if it's bigger than that. 0x7FFFFFFF used to be the old
| RLIM_INFINITY in 2.2 [actually, ((long)(~0UL>>1))]. In
| 2.4, RLIM_INFINITY is (~0UL).
|
| So if you call sys_setrlimit() with the old RLIM_INFINITY from 2.2
| OR with the result from sys_old_getrlimit(), then the new limit
| will be 0x7FFFFFFF instead of unlimited.
|
| Looks like someone forgot to implement sys_old_setrlimit(),
| which would have been the right thing to do.
|
| Now all we can do is to hack sys_setrlimit and let it translate
| 0x7FFFFFFF to RLIM_INFINITY.
|
| The following untested and uncompiled patch might do it, or not...
|
| --- linux-2.4.17-pre2/kernel/sys.c.orig Tue Sep 18 23:10:43 2001
| +++ linux-2.4.17-pre2/kernel/sys.c Wed Dec 5 23:30:50 2001
| @@ -1120,6 +1120,16 @@
| return -EINVAL;
| if(copy_from_user(&new_rlim, rlim, sizeof(*rlim)))
| return -EFAULT;
| +#if !defined(__ia64__)
| + /*
| + * In 2.2, RLIMIT_INFINITY was defined as ((long)(~0UL>>1)).
| + * Reckognize it and translate it to the new RLIMIT_INFINITY.
| + */
| + if ((long)new_rlim.rlim_cur == ((long)(~0UL>>1)))
| + new_rlim.rlim_cur = RLIMIT_INFINITY;
| + if ((long)new_rlim.rlim_max == ((long)(~0UL>>1)))
| + new_rlim.rlim_max = RLIMIT_INFINITY;
| +#endif
| old_rlim = current->rlim + resource;
| if (((new_rlim.rlim_cur > old_rlim->rlim_max) ||
| (new_rlim.rlim_max > old_rlim->rlim_max)) &&
|
| Mike.
| --
| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
| and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
|
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