Upgrading to Debian woody (with glibc 2.2) fixed the problem. :)
Thanks,
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger@turbolabs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Andi Kleen
Cc: Alex Adriaanse; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LFS stopped working
On Nov 15, 2001 07:08 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Alex Adriaanse" <alex_a@caltech.edu> writes:
> > = 4095
> > write(1, "\0", 1) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
> > --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++
> >
> > I'm doing this on a ReiserFS filesystem, but trying it on an ext2
partition
> > yields the same results.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> ulimit -f unlimited.
>
> SIGXFSZ means you exceeded your quota. Somehow you managed to set your
> file size quotas to 2GB. Set them to unlimited instead. It could be caused
> by same PAM module; e.g. pam_limits, check /etc/security/*
The problem is that the old getrlimit() syscall returns a max of 0x7fffffff
for the limit, while the kernel uses 0xffffffff for unlimited, so if you
do "setrlimit(getrlimit())" you may actually be going from a real unlimited
ulimit, to a "bogus" unlimited limit that the kernel will deny you on.
I think the fix is to simply ignore file limits when writing to block
devices.
Cheers, Andreas
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