Bug#559647: aborts when making a filesystem larger than 2048 MiB

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Robert Millan a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> I have modified the GNU libc type on GNU/kFreeBSD to match the kernel
>> definition fixing this bug (after a rebuild) on this platform. For
>> GNU/Linux, we will probably have to modify ufsutils sources.
> 
> It sounds like this could potentially cause massive ABI change in
> libraries/programs that use this type.
> 
> Although it doesn't sound like a common type.  But I'd avoid it.
> 

I have done some checks and found it is basically not used outside of
our FreeBSD packages. That's probably why this problem hasn't been seen
before.


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