cfdisk, fdisk, and mke2fs: "file size limit exceeded"
I'm trying to replace a pair of 30G drives in a RAID0 configuration
with a pair of 60s so I'll be able to do RAID1 instead. However, I
keep getting "file size limit exceeded" errors whenever I:
- Try to write a configuration with more than 2 logical partitions
using cfdisk or fdisk (although the partition sizes don't matter,
only the number of partitions).
- Try to format a large partition (2G is OK, 20G is not) using
mke2fs.
A google search turned up a couple of mailing list posts suggesting
that this is a kernel bug which was fixed in an -ac patch at some
point, then reintroduced in 2.4.10; the machine I'm working with has
displayed this bug with 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 kernels, both built from
Debian's kernel-source packages. I tried a 2.2.19 also, but that
wouldn't boot due to incompatible RAID implementations.
Is there a patch currently out there to fix this? If not, what's the
next step towards getting this system up and running with the new
disks?
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