Sorry for not giving the error. I was trying "cat /dev/zero > test" as a test and receiving the error "File too large.". I have 2 machines setup pretty much identically, except the one that I am receiving the error for is software-raided with md and raid1. The other one (running SuSE 8.0 as well with 2.4.20 kernel) does not give this error. I have tried recompiling the kernel (to several different versions, the last 2.5.69) and recompiling gcc, glibc, and other packages...but no luck ... still get the same error. I don't think ulimit is used in newer glibc now...right? Anyways, you may be right about the drivers not caring about the filesizes, but wouldn't there be a 32bit limit on blocks if the LFS support was not there? -----Original Message----- From: Matti Aarnio To: Duncan, Mike Cc: 'linux-raid@vger.kernel.org' Sent: 5/12/2003 6:10 PM Subject: Re: MD/RAID1 Large File Support On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:42:41PM -0400, Duncan, Mike wrote: ... > Basically, we are trying to transfer (via FTP and SSH) files larger than 2G. > I have read that SuSE has LFS in all of its distros from 7.1 and up (kernels > 2.4.1 and up) and that kernel-wise and glibc-wise everything is ok. So after > re-compiling kernels, textutils, gcc, binutils, and glibc in an effort to > figure out which one is not compiled with LFS support in ... and ... > restarting from scratch once I found out it was not them ... I am left with > md.o or raid1.o as being the culprit. > > So --- is there LFS support in md.o and raid1.o modules? If not, is this > expected in 2.6 kernels? If so, do I need to apply a patch to get this > working or just maybe more kernel parameters? Wrong layer. MD/RAID does not see FILES, just bunches of diskblocks. What is the problem you are encountering, to be exact ? You have two machines in between which you try to transfer files. Can you do following at both ? dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=3 seek=3000 of=test.file That should create about 3 GB size file at both machines. (It does SKIP over 3G, and writes 3 MB, thus it does not need that much diskspace..) If it doesn't, check that: $ ulimit -f unlimited If it does not give that, there is your problem. > TIA for any and all help. > > ------------------------------------ > Mike Duncan > Web Master/Developer > Sonopress LLC > > mike.duncan@sonopress.com > 828.658.6082 (desk) > 828.423.3310 (cell) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
