Test procedure: In 3.16.0-57-generic: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/lower/f1 bs=4096 count=550000 550000+0 records in 550000+0 records out 2252800000 bytes (2.3 GB) copied, 4.00938 s, 562 MB/s $ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs $ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1 chmod: changing permissions of ‘f1’: Value too large for defined data type
Rebooted into 3.16.0-58-generic: $ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs $ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1 $ echo $? 0 ** Tags removed: verification-needed-utopic ** Tags added: verification-done-utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523000 Title: writing files larger than 2GB to overlayfs fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1523000/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
