(reiserfs) Re: cat /dev/zero > junk

[Hans Reiser]

Ooops, sorry, just saw the negative du.  Thanks, we'll fix this.

Hans

Hans Reiser wrote:

> We have a 31 bit file size limit, which you are stuck with for at least a week,
> maybe more.   This is a non-feature not a bug;-/
>
> Hans
>
> heiko hees wrote:
>
> > no problem with my system.
> >
> > node002:~ # cat /dev/zero >/mnt/junk
> >  cat: write error: File too large
> >
> > node002:~ # ls -al /mnt
> > total 2097153
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root           55 Nov 27 21:43 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  18 root     root         1024 Nov 27 21:27 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     2147483647 Nov 27 21:45 junk
> >
> > node002:~ # du -h  /mnt/
> > -2147483594.0   /mnt    (ext2 has the same negative count)
> > node002:~ # du   /mnt/
> > 2097152 /mnt
> > node002:~ # du -b  /mnt/
> > -2147483594     /mnt
> > node002:~ # du -m  /mnt/
> > 2048    /mnt
> >
> > heiko
> >
> > >
> > > Well:
> > >
> > > cat /dev/zero > junk &
> > >
> > > STILL makes my system completly unresonsive.  Is this not a valid test.
> > >
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