tail.c: 836: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed (linux, kernel 2.4.x, coreutils 5.2.1)

[Roberto Nibali]

Hi,

[please cc when replying as I'm not subscribed to this list]

I have a strange problem I'm trying to understand. I know in which lines of 
tail.c the code fails but I cannot imagine why valid_file_spec() returns false. 
It has something to do with large files (>2GB) and them being on a DRDB 
partition over md0.

A tail or tail -f on a 10GB file on a physical partition of a SCSI disk works 
like a charm, however if I run those commands on a DRDB mounted partition, I get 
a EX_IOERR for normal tail and this assertion failed for a tail -f plus an EX_IOERR.

aa: # tail /data/log/zurich/10.10.20.17/20041201.app
error reading `/data/log/zurich/10.10.20.17/20041201.app': Input/output error
aa: # tail -f /data/log/zurich/10.10.20.17/20041201.app
error reading `/data/log/zurich/10.10.20.17/20041201.app': Input/output error
tail: tail.c: 836: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed.
Aborted
aa: #

Has anyone ever encoutered this before? It could be an issue with the rather 
strange entries I have in my kernlog:

Dec  3 00:00:02 aa attempt to access beyond end of device
Dec  3 00:00:02 aa 93:00: rw=0, want=72089604, limit=72072960
Dec  3 00:00:02 aa EXT3-fs error (device drbd(147,0)): read_block_bitmap: Cannot 
read block bitmap - block_group = 550, block_bitmap = 18022400

EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended CN aa

Best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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