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> --- V2: against master! Sorry, first patch was against the bisection point. 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 1c0818f..7e91509 100644 --- a/misc/util.c +++ b/misc/util.c @@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ int check_plausibility(const char *device, int flags, int *ret_is_dev) char *fs_type = NULL; char *fs_label = NULL; - fd = open(device, fl, 0666); + fd = ext2fs_open_file(device, fl, 0666); if ((fd < 0) && (errno == ENOENT) && (flags & CREATE_FILE)) { fl |= O_CREAT; - fd = open(device, fl, 0666); + fd = ext2fs_open_file(device, fl, 0666); if (fd >= 0 && (flags & VERBOSE_CREATE)) printf(_("Creating regular file %s\n"), device); } -- 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