Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:26:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps |
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On Mar 15, 2002 18:23 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > There's also the question > whether or not filesize limits should really apply to device files, > since the original point of filesize limits were as a simple-minded > quota control mechanism, and there seems to be little point to causing > attempts to access block deivces to fail --- under what circumstances > would this *ever* be considered a useful thing?
Yes, I have always considered this a kernel bug (introduced in 2.4.10), but my (admittedly feeble) attempts to get it fixed were not accepted. At one point I thought a fix went into 2.4.18-pre[12] or so, but I guess not. I haven't tried in a while, so maybe I should make another attempt.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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