Re: Anyone know what this error means?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:06:24AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > 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.

glibc alone never sets O_LARGEFILE.  It usually needs a recompile
of the application with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and some testing because
that may break it. 

Normally O_LARGEFILE shouldn't be checked on block devices like /dev/sda9 
though, so it's a bit strange that he gets the error here. 

strace would probably give clues.

-Andi