Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:48:31 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test9 + LFS |
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> > I attempted to create a 4gb sparce file with dd. It failed. > > I created one that was 2.1gb in size which worked. Then I appeneded more > > junk to the end of the file making it over 2.2gb. > > > > doing an ls -l shows: > > ls: x: Value too large for defined data type > > > > NOTE: this worked in 2.4.0-test6 and I believe it stopped working around > > test8, but I'm not sure. May have been around test7. > > Previous kernels allowed up to 4gb to be returned by the old stat. > Upgrade your glibc and fileutils -- most recent distributions (Red Hat, > SuSE, ...) are LFS ready, and the only reports I've seen about this > concerned Slackware.
I did upgrade that and it didn't help anything.
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