Re: File size limit exceeded with mkfs

From: Jason Tackaberry (tack@auc.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 15:29:14 EST


Hi Andreas,

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:33, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Several people have reported problems like this also. What happens is
> that if you are logged on as a user, then su to root, it will fail. If
> you log in directly as root, it will work.

Yep, this is indeed the case.

> Can you please try some intermediate kernels (2.4.10 would be a good
> start, because it had some major changes in this area, and then go
> forward and back depending whether it works or not).

2.4.10 does NOT work.
2.4.9 DOES work.

So clearly something happened in 2.4.10 which broke this. Please let me
know if I can be of any more help.

Regards,
Jason.

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