The commit: 802146c mke2fs: create a regular file if necessary caused a regression on 32-bit machines; the open() fails if the file size is > 4G. Using ext2fs_open_file() fixes it. Resolves: Red Hat Bugzilla #1099892 Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- TBH I don't know if this should be using ext2fs_open_file(), or some other magic like O_LARGEFILE, but this works for me, and we use the stat/fstat wrapper here too, so ... diff --git a/misc/util.c b/misc/util.c index f85942e..d638625 100644 --- a/misc/util.c +++ b/misc/util.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int check_plausibility(const char *device, int flags, int *ret_is_dev) if (flags & CREATE_FILE) fl |= O_CREAT; - fd = open(device, fl, 0666); + fd = ext2fs_open_file(device, fl, 0666); if (fd < 0) { fprintf(stderr, _("Could not open %s: %s\n"), device, error_message(errno)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html