Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Alex Adriaanse" <> | Subject | RE: LFS stopped working | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:06:13 -0800 |
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Upgrading to Debian woody (with glibc 2.2) fixed the problem. :)
Thanks,
Alex
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger@turbolabs.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:07 AM To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alex Adriaanse; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LFS stopped working
On Nov 15, 2001 07:08 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Alex Adriaanse" <alex_a@caltech.edu> writes: > > = 4095 > > write(1, "\0", 1) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) > > --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) --- > > +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++ > > > > I'm doing this on a ReiserFS filesystem, but trying it on an ext2 partition > > yields the same results. > > > > Any suggestions? > > ulimit -f unlimited. > > SIGXFSZ means you exceeded your quota. Somehow you managed to set your > file size quotas to 2GB. Set them to unlimited instead. It could be caused > by same PAM module; e.g. pam_limits, check /etc/security/*
The problem is that the old getrlimit() syscall returns a max of 0x7fffffff for the limit, while the kernel uses 0xffffffff for unlimited, so if you do "setrlimit(getrlimit())" you may actually be going from a real unlimited ulimit, to a "bogus" unlimited limit that the kernel will deny you on.
I think the fix is to simply ignore file limits when writing to block devices.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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