Hello,
Not sure if this is relevant, but it might be. Seems as though there's a
kernel bug preventing creation of some large filesystems - See:
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/0/7497786/
Also, in the event you can't get though, there's a patch at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18pre2aa1/00_blkdev-ulimit-1
HTH,
-Walt
Adam McKenna wrote:
This is an approx. 270 Gig RAID5 partition on an AMI Megaraid card on
2.2.14-xfs (snapshot)..
I get the following error when trying to create the filesystem:
adam@braindb:~$ sudo mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda9
mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/sda9: Invalid
argument
meta-data=/dev/sda9 isize=256 agcount=65, agsize=1048576 blks
data = bsize=4096 blocks=67782243, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=8274
realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
File size limit exceeded
The same thing happens if I try ext2:
adam@braindb:~$ sudo mke2fs /dev/sda9
mke2fs 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
33898496 inodes, 67782243 blocks
3389112 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
2069 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
File size limit exceeded
adam@braindb:~$ uname -a
Linux braindb 2.4.14-xfs #3 SMP Fri Nov 30 01:58:14 PST 2001 i686 unknown
Anyone know what is going on here?
--Adam
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