> The only difference of any significance between the working > and non-working configurations is that in the non-working, > the component devices are larger than 2Gig, and hence have > sector offsets greater than 32 bits. Do u mean 2T here?, but in both configuartion, the component devices are larger than 2T (2.25T&5.5T). > This does cause a slightly different code path in one place, > but I cannot see it making a difference. But maybe it does. > > What architecture is this running on? > What C compiler are you using? I386(i686) Gcc 4.0.2 20051125, Distro is Fedora core, we've tried fc4 and fc6. > Can you try with this patch? It is the only thing that I can > find that could conceivably go wrong. > OK, I will try the patach and post the result. Best Regards Jeff Zheng - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html