Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LFS stopped working | From | Andreas Jaeger <> | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:38:05 +0100 |
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"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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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