William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Either your utility is not opening the file with O_LARGEFILE or an >> O_LARGEFILE check has been incorrectly processed by the kernel. Please >> strace the utility and include the compressed results as a MIME >> attachment. Remember to compress the results, as most MTA's will reject >> messages of excessive size, in particular, mine. On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:09:38PM +0100, Stephen Willey wrote: > MD'd two 1.8Tb RAIDs together to form a 3.8Tb /dev/md0 > mkfs.jfs /dev/md0 was successful > mkfs.gfs -p lock_dlm -t cluster1:gfs1 -j 8 /dev/md0 failed as expected > with a File too large error > The strace output should be attached... > Thanks, > Stephen So it's the latter. Could you give the precise kernel version in which you encountered this bug? Writing a patch for 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 and expecting it to be used may be too much to ask for... -- wli