Re: big files

[Mark . Burgess]

please try the latest snapshot

M

On  7 Oct, Iain Morgan wrote:
> On Thu Oct  7 09:28:51 2004, Brendan Strejcek wrote:
>> 
>> Sometimes I get these messages:
>> 
>>     a: RecursiveCheck was looking at XXX when this happened:
>>     a: lstat: Value too large for defined data type
>> 
>> where XXX is a file name larger that 2 GB. This happens on machines
>> running Linux kernel 2.4.18. I'm pretty sure other programs don't have
>> problems like this when dealing with big files, so I suspect that maybe
>> cfengine was compiled incorrectly.
>> 
>> Anyone have experience with this?
>> 
>> 
> 
> I've seen similar behaviour under Solaris 8 and 9.  I tried building
> cfengine with the flags indacted by 'getconf LFS_CFLAGS' buty that
> resulted in othere problems which I unfortunately do not recall at the
> moment.
> 
> --
> Iain Morgan
> NAS Desktop Support Group
> 
> 
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