Re: "bio too big" error

Joe Thornber (joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk)
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:08:36 +0000


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:17:45PM -0500, Wil Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a "bio too big" error with 2.5.50. I've got a 330G lvm2
> partition formatted with ext3 using the -T largefile4 parameter.
> Everything seems ok at first, but any sort of access will die very
> unhappily with said error messsage after about 10 seconds of operation
> or so. The only google search results are the patch submission. Eeek.

Could you try the patchset below please ? (you may need to knock out
patch 5 until we get to the bottom of that particular bug).

http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.5-stable/2.5.51/2.5.51-dm-2.tar.bz2

- Joe
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