Yesterday we made som modifications to our News machine.
We installed a new Ethernet card, Intel EtherExpress Pro100
and switched one Buslogic controller, out of two, to IRQ 10.
Before this change both SCSI controllers were on IRQ 11.
We also installed another SCSI disk on once controller.
Everything went up as expected. We also upgraded the kernel
from 2.0.31 to 2.0.33.
Now, we we're very surprised to find that we could not create
files larger than 1 gigabyte on the new disk?! It's a 4 gig
Seagate Barracuda. There are sevral similar disks in the machine
each with two 2gig files on them. (It's a CNFS machine).
The existing 2gig files work fine, but when trying to create
a new file the following happens:
root@news:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/news/spool/raw/sdd/TEN bs=8192
count=257300
dd: =/var/news/spool/raw/sdd/TEN: File too large
131073+0 records in
131072+0 records out
Same thing if you try to copy one of the existing files, gives
you a "file to large" error.
In the /var/news/spool/raw/sdd/ directory it looks like this
afterwards:
root@news:/var/news/spool/raw/sdd# l
total 1052701
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1073741824 Feb 3 23:47 TEN
drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 12288 Feb 3 22:20 lost+found/
I think this is very strange. We've tried falling back to the old
kernel too (2.0.31), but it dosent work.
Any ideas?!
Thanks!
Regrads,
Fredrik Lindgren
SolNET, Sweden