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SubjectRe: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps
On Mar 15, 2002  18:23 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> There's also the question
> whether or not filesize limits should really apply to device files,
> since the original point of filesize limits were as a simple-minded
> quota control mechanism, and there seems to be little point to causing
> attempts to access block deivces to fail --- under what circumstances
> would this *ever* be considered a useful thing?

Yes, I have always considered this a kernel bug (introduced in 2.4.10),
but my (admittedly feeble) attempts to get it fixed were not accepted.
At one point I thought a fix went into 2.4.18-pre[12] or so, but I
guess not. I haven't tried in a while, so maybe I should make another
attempt.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert

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