hi,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:34:39PM -0400, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:33:07AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
>
> Indeed. I've just experienced this problem as well. On a 2.4.10 kernel
> patched with the xfs 2.4.10-9/25 patch, I too experience the "File size
> limit exceeded" error. At first, I did have Quotas enabled. Following
> suggestions to the list, I've disabled quota support and built a new
> kernel... but the problem persists. I am still unable to mkfs.xfs
> without getting this error.
>
> > Let me see if we're on the same page - you have a system with no XFS
>
> My system is *entirely* XFS based (even root) with a small 500Mb "rescue"
> install on ext2 that I can boot to that holds /boot as well.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that XFS wasn't affected - I was just
trying to reduce the set of possible sources of the problem.
>
> > - There is no possibility that any XFS quota code is being exectued
> > in your setup (no XFS code at all), other than at bootup - where we
> > don't do much, mainly just some global initialization (locks, memory
> > allocation, etc) - so, I'm a bit amazed that switching off XFS quota
> > can change the outcome at all here;
>
> It doesn't fix me. I'm still broken.
>
That makes some sense, at least (i.e. that switching off quota
doesn't fix the problem).
> > Its all very, very strange... I'm a little inclined to suspect the
> > recent block device changes in 2.4.10/11 - the only XFS quota change
> > recently was some minor changes to the quotactl interface, and this
> > code wouldn't be executed at all in your setup.
>
> I'm willing to give anything a try at this point... The box in question
I would suggest trying the CVS code if you can - that is now at
2.4.13-something and there's plenty of changes in there. Maybe
this problem has been diagnosed & fixed in the base kernel - the
fact that earlier versions work OK suggests (but doesn't prove)
that the problem is coming from outside XFS.
>
> Oddly enough, the "rescue" 2.4.7-xfs kernel that they were built with work
> fine... one box was able to create and format a large 40G xfs volume
> yesterday with the "rescue" 2.4.7-xfs boot kernel, and I've been fighting
> with the other machine to do the same under the "normal" 2.4.10-xfs boot
> kernel. No dice.
>
I'd suggest booting the 2.4.7-xfs kernel on both machines for now,
until this issue is resolved.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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