File size limit exceeded with mkfs

Jason Tackaberry (tack@auc.ca)
20 Nov 2001 11:02:18 -0500


Hi everyone. Please CC any responses to me as I'm not subscribed to
this list.

I just installed a shiny new 80GB disk as primary slave and decided to
upgrade to 2.4.14+ext3 patch. It appears that with this kernel, and
also with 2.4.15-pre7, when trying to mkfs partitions greater than 2GB,
I get "file size limit exceeded" and mkfs aborts. I can successfully
mkfs partitions <= 2GB.

I do not have this problem with 2.4.7; all works well. Wondering if the
difference was ext3, I tried compiling 2.4.15-pre7 without ext3 support
and the same problem occured.

The disk is

hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63

on a dual PIII-800 (SMP kernel). Please let me know if I can supply
additional information.

Cheers,
Jason.

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