17G File size limit?

[Brandon Evans]

Hi everyone,
   This is a strange problem I have been having.  I'm not sure where the 
problem is, so I figured I'd start here.

I as having problems with Bacula stopping on 17Gig Volume sizes, so I 
decided to try to Just dd a 50 gig file.  Sure enough, once the file hit 
17 gigs dd stopped and spit out an error


(pandora bacula)# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=50000
File size limit exceeded
(pandora bacula)#


(pandora bacula)# ll
total 20334813
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 17247252480 Sep 23 00:44 bigfile
-rw-r-----  1 root root   302323821 Sep 23 01:10 Default-0001
-rw-r-----  1 root root   156637059 Sep 18 01:08 Diff-wi0001
-rw-r-----  1 root root    46985831 Sep  6 19:38 Full-0001
-rw-r-----  1 root root    47126293 Sep  7 14:39 Full-0002
-rw-r-----  1 root root  2841621607 Sep 13 17:11 Full-wi0001
-rw-r-----  1 root root     1584252 Sep 18 01:05 Inc-0001
-rw-r-----  1 root root    97963834 Sep 14 01:05 Inc-wi0001

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             9.7G  5.8G  3.4G  64% /
/dev/hda1              99M   20M   75M  21% /boot
/dev/hda4             102G  2.2G   94G   3% /home
/dev/md2              221G   90G  120G  43% /mnt/storage
none                 1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/lvg01-coraid
                       812G  693G  114G  86% /mnt/coraid



There are a few layers on this partation, so I figured I'd start at the 
top with you guys and work my way down.  The partation this size limit 
is on looks like so...

/mnt/coraid
+--------+
| Ext3   |
+--------+
| LVM 2  |
+--------+
| Raid 5 |
+--------+


So any one of these layers could be the problem.  I was able to create a 
100 Gig file on the /home partition, so perhaps ext3 is not the problem, 
but I'm really not sure.


The system is CentOs 4.1 running 2.6.13.2 (also tried 2.6.12.2)

Any insight would be great

-- 

Thanks,
     Brandon Evans

  "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've 
always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson