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Re: e2fsprogs: >2GiB volume can't be formated on 32bit ports.



Samuel Thibault, le Tue 01 Nov 2011 01:16:58 +0100, a écrit :
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-10-16-1
> Severity: important

Actually that might even warrant a serious severity, as nowadays you
can't do much with a <2GiB volume.

> Hello,
> 
> This was noticed on hurd-i386 first, but happens on i386 too:
> 
> $ dd < /dev/zero > blip bs=1M count=1 seek=8000
> $ /sbin/mke2fs blip 
> mke2fs 1.42-WIP (16-Oct-2011)
> Could not stat blip --- Value too large for defined data type
> $ nm -D /sbin/mke2fs | grep stat
>          U __xstat
> 
> while it used to use xstat64, which provides LFS support. I guess some
> build flag gets lost somewhere.


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