I have rebuilt my ext2fs tools without the libc llseek support,
and with your hacked llseek support.
And now my fancy drives show :-)
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda2 69987 57751 8622 87% /
/dev/sda4 1096024 742464 296931 71% /usr
/dev/md0 513407 2394 484917 0% /news
/dev/md1 20496903 16674 19374384 0% /news/articles
Whee. :-)
I'm running a 5.4.6 libc I think, perhaps .7, so that's
probally the problem, the libc implemtation of llseek is broken. :-)
Hack away.
- jared
Jared Mauch graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> I'm willing to test.. let me repartition my disks again,
> do some tests as suggested here, and I'll post my results.
>
> - Jared
>
> Theodore Y. Ts'o graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> > From: Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 07:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > I'm having problems mke2fsing a filesystem larger than 2 gigs, does
> > anyone know of any limitations to ext2fs? I thought it was 2 terabytes, but
> > I may be wrong..
> >
> > I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition.
> >
> > There are some problems making large filesystems that people have
> > reported starting with 1.06, but it appears to be related to whatever
> > libc they are using. I haven't tracked it down any further than that,
> > except that apparently llseek() is failing, so any attempts to access
> > blocks greater than 2GB fails. (It's not just mke2fs, but a freshly
> > compiled e2fsck fails as well, on an already created 4GB partition.)
> >
> > I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REPRODUCE THIS, but that's probably because I
> > remain very conservative about the libc version that I develop under.
> > (Basically, I have enough problems debugging my own code, that I don't
> > want to worry about debugging libc problems --- and unlike kernel
> > problems, libc problems are *subtle*. For example, Netscape doesn't
> > work with the 5.3 libc that's released with Redhat 4.0. Grumble....)
> > For these reasons, I'm still using libc 5.2.18, from the Redhat 3.0.3
> > release.
> >
> > If someone would like to help me debug this, I'd be very grateful.
> > Basically, what you need to do is to run mke2fs under gdb, and put a
> > breakpoint at the llseek() call in ext2_llseek(), which is located in
> > lib/ext2fs/llseek.c. As you will see by looking at the code, llseek()
> > is only called after you go above 2GB, which is why problems with
> > llseek() won't be noticed for filesystems less than 2GB. When mke2fs
> > hits the break point, single step through the llseek call and see what
> > arguments is being given to it, and what sort of error it is returning.
> >
> > One thing you can try is to add an #undef HAVE_LLSEEK to llseek.c, which
> > will try cause ext2fs_llseek() to use its own home-grown version of
> > llseek(), and avoid using the libc version altogether. If that solves
> > the problem, we'll know where the problem lies.
> >
> > - Ted
> >
>