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Re: Anyone know what this error means?

To: Adam McKenna <adam-dated-1010968404.3db79f@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Anyone know what this error means?
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 09 Jan 2002 09:06:24 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20020109003323.GW4511@flounder.net>
References: <20020109003323.GW4511@flounder.net>
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On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 18:33, 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?

You are being bitten by O_LARGEFILE - the linux kernel now does not let
an application which does not open files with O_LARGEFILE access beyond
2 Gbytes. 

Lots of applications seem to rely on glibc doing this for them - so it
may be you need a newer glibc.

Steve

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