Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 20 Nov 00 at 17:56, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> I just noticed this problem - 
> I'm missing some large files created in the filesystem.
> 
> This is 'ls' output from 2.4.0-test11/test10
> total 33
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Nov 20 18:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x   42 root     root         1024 Nov 20 14:02 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 19 15:50 X
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Sep 30 18:45 lost+found
> ls: zero: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> but maybe its incompatibility in libc - anyway I'm using
> uptodate Debian Woody if this helps.

It is problem with Debian's glibc, it is compiled with 2.2.x kernel
headers. I filled bugreport against this few weeks ago, but it was marked
as inappropriate because of Debian glibc is built against newest
kernel-headers package, and newest kernel-headers package is still 2.2.x.

Maybe someone (you) should fill bug against kernel-headers or kernel-source
to get 2.4.x into Debian. Then Ben Collins (Debian glibc maintainer) can 
recompile and officially release glibc compiled against 2.4.x kernel.
                                                Best regards,
                                                        Petr Vandrovec
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