Hi
Ragnar Kj�rstad wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > > I was doing some testing of a 53GB reiserfs file system on a machine I am
> > > building to see what the performance was like, and I stumbled across a
> > > problem.
> > >
> > this is bizarre, there is nothing in reiserfs that should cause this in the 2.4
> > series, did you create a new fs from scratch under 2.4? I recommend that you
> > use kernel 2.4.4, as 2.4.2 is unstable. Read our faq for the section about how
> > you should update your libraries and file utils to avoid the 2gb limit, but....
>
> Maybe the filesystem is in reiserfs-3.5 format?
Creating of long file on 3.5 format reiserfs should either return EFBIG or get
SIGXFSZ (or both). It should not hang.
Richard, would you mind to strace the process which hangs and send us what does it
say, please?
Thanks,
vs
>
> Did you use -v 1 or -v 2 argument to mkreiserfs when you created the
> filesystem?
> (debugreiserfs or whatever it is called should tell you what version it
> is)
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjorstad
> Big Storage
