Re: lots of ext2 messages in log file with 2.2.10

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:08:57 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:07:24 -0400, Brian Ristuccia
<brianr@osiris.978.org> said:

> osiris kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,2)): ext2_getblk: block < 0
> osiris last message repeated 548 times

Under some conditions, ext2 will spit these out if you try to give it a
negative block offset in a file create, mainly when you attempt to
overflow the 2GB file limit. You'll still get an application error
back: is there a log file too large somewhere on this box?

--Stephen

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