Of course I discovered the problem about 20 minutes after posting.. The problem turned out to be some soft limits for user accounts. My confusion over the large_file flag turned out to be a red herring, but at least it was an educational one. Cheers, -Darrell On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:26, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 09, 2003 14:47 -0400, Darrell Michaud wrote: > > I recently ran into an issue where I couldn't create a file larger than > > 2GB on a particular ext3 filesystem. I was under the (mistaken) > > impression that >2GB support went in before ext3 support, and all ext3 > > filesystems would therefore support >2GB files on ia32. > > > > So, I started poking around and found that some of my ext3 filesystems > > have the "large_file" feature flag set on them, and others do not. I > > cannot find a manpage for mke2fs anywhere that explains how to set this > > flag, either at creation time or afterwards. When I try something like > > "mke2fs -j -O large_file <dev>" mke2fs complains that it doesn't > > understand the argument. Attempts to create ext3 filesystems using a > > modern debian-based (2.4.18) rescue CD also failed to set the large_file > > flag. > > > > So, I guess my question is, in what version of mke2fs was support for > > large files implemented, and how do you enable it, if it's not the > > default behavior? > > That flag is set when a large file is created on the filesystem, and is > not a feature you "activate" per se. Either your kernel "gets it" or > it doesn't. > > There should never be a problem where you can create a >2GB file on one > filesystem and not on another on the same system with the same program. > Depending if your kernel (unlikely), tool, or libraries, you may still > have problems creating a >2GB, but that isn't the filesystem's fault. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
