Bug 13531

Summary: hostfs cannot seek files bigger than 2GB
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Wolfgang Illmeyer (wolfgang)
Component: UMLAssignee: Jeff Dike (jdike)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: akpm, wolfgang
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.29.1 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: enable lfs for hostfs

Description Wolfgang Illmeyer 2009-06-14 03:59:00 UTC
Created attachment 21906 [details]
enable lfs for hostfs

LFS doesn't work for hostfs, patch attached
Comment 1 Andrew Morton 2009-06-22 22:06:27 UTC
Probably it would be better to use MAX_LFS_FILESIZE rather than plain "-1".

Please submit patches via email, not bugzilla?  Suitable recipients for this patch are

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Documentation/SubmittingPatches has some tips, including the Signed-off-by: procedure.
Comment 2 Wolfgang Illmeyer 2009-07-18 10:00:28 UTC
works for me as of 2.6.31-rc2