On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:00:50 -0700,
"D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Suresh Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>> Hmm.. With 0777 mode argument, it just creates a huge file with the
>> appropriate permissions (after umask).. same errors.. :(
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 gsuresh users 4294967274 Dec 15 22:14 /tmp/blah
>>
>> --suresh
>
>Interesting number, hex it is 0xFFFFFFEA. Hex 0x15 off from nice round
>power of 2 minus 1, 0xF from turning over a 32 bit number. Not really
>helpful, but I would expect in most cases it would be a number exactly
>2^x - 1. Where do the last 0x15 bytes go? Is that some kind of overhead
>granularity?
This thread has migrated to linux-kernel, it is a kernel bug involving
signed numbers being compared to unsigned. Hint, -EINVAL is -22,
0xFFFFFFEA. Not an XFS problem.
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