Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alex Adriaanse" <> | Subject | RE: LFS stopped working | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:03:52 -0800 |
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But ulimit shows that the file size is unlimited... would this be a bug? If that's the case, then how/why would it work before?
Thanks,
Alex
-----Original Message----- From: aj@suse.de [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:38 AM To: Alex Adriaanse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LFS stopped working
"Alex Adriaanse" <alex_a@caltech.edu> writes:
> Hey, > > I've been running 2.4.14 for a few days now. I needed LFS support, so I > recompiled glibc 2.1.3 with the new 2.4 headers, and after that I could > create large files (e.g. using dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=0 > seek=3000) just fine. > > However, as of yesterday, I couldn't create files bigger than 2GB anymore. > I did not change kernels, nor did I mess with libc or anything else (I did > some Debian package upgrades/installations/recompiles, but I don't think > they should affect this) - I'm not quite sure what happened. Now commands > such as the dd command I mentioned above will die with the message "File > size limit exceeded", leaving a 2GB file behind. Rebooting didn't solve > anything. My ulimits seem to be fine (file size = unlimited). > > The last few lines of the strace on the dd command above shows the > following: > open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 0 > close(1) = 0 > open("test", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|0x8000, 0666) = 1 > ftruncate64(0x1, 0xbb800000, 0, 0, 0x1) = 0 > --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) --- > +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++
ulimit is hit. I strongly advise to upgrade to glibc 2.2 when using kernel 2.4,
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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