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Re: More problems with unstable/base



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On 4 Aug 1997, Dale Martin wrote:

> I have a "raid0" md partition that consists of two 2G partitions
> striped together.  Today, I ran my machine out of virtual memory and
> it locked up (might be a problem with 2.0.14 and/or SMP) and lo and
> behold, the filesystem on my striped partition was trashed.  What's
> even worse was that I couldn't make a new filesystem on it!  I kept
> getting _weird_ errors - I was starting to think I had a hardware
> problem.  Anyways, I downgraded from e2fstools version 1.10-4 to
> 1.10-2, and voila, problem fixed!  It looks like version 1.10-4
> doesn't like partitions greater than 2G or something.

Actually, the problem with e2fstools is known, it is a problem with the
llseek implementation in glibc.


WARNING TO ALL *** IF YOU HAVE FILESYSTEMS GREATER THAN 2G, DO NOT USE
E2FSTOOLS_1.10-4 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, BACK OUT TO THE VERSION IN
STABLE.

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