Invalid argument is probably from ftruncate.
> /tmp> dd if=/dev/zero of=tt bs=1k seek=2047k
> 19913+0 records in
> 19912+0 records out
> ^C
> /tmp> ls -al tt
> ls: tt: Value too large for defined data type
> /tmp> su
> Password:
> /tmp# rm tt
> rm: cannot remove `tt': Value too large for defined data type
> /tmp# mv tt xx
> mv: tt: Value too large for defined data type
> /tmp# rm -f tt
> rm: cannot remove `tt': Value too large for defined data type
> /tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=uu bs=1k count=2050 seek=2047k
> 2050+0 records in
> 2050+0 records out
> /tmp# l uu
> ls: uu: Value too large for defined data type
> /tmp#
Looks like your fileutils and/or shell and/or glibc are conspiring against
you.
> > Can you test the "dd" above to ensure it works with your tools and the old
> > kernel? For your next 2.4.14 kernel build, it may be instructive to put
> > a printk() inside the 3 checks in generic_file_write() before it outputs
> > SIGXFSZ, which tells us limit and RLIM_INIFINITY, pos and count, and pos
> > and s_maxbytes are, respectively. This will also tell us what limit is
> > being hit (although it is most likely a ulimit issue).
>
> Grmbl... I'll see what I can do.
Start by upgrading your tools to largefile aware ones.
Cheers, Andreas
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