Bug#156972: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#156972: acknowledged by developer ())
reopen 156972
retitle 156972 LFS: >>4GB filesize problems
thanks
> > Do you know or did you just guess after reading some changelogs? Please
> > try it to become convinced. Below is sth. you can use to generate a large
> > sparce file. And when you fetch the file, you won't get it but only the
> > first ($size module 2GB) bytes.
>
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=test-3GB bs=1048576 count=3072
> 3072+0 records in
> 3072+0 records out
> 3221225472 bytes transferred in 680.008070 seconds (4737040 bytes/sec)
Jeez, please try with a bit larger file and you will face the next
barrier: 4GB. I don't report such bugs just for fun.
# wget http://localhost/large -O - | wc -c
--16:57:37-- http://localhost/large
=> `-'
Auflösen des Hostnamen »localhost«.... fertig.
Verbindungsaufbau zu localhost[127.0.0.1]:80... verbunden.
HTTP Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 200 OK
Länge: 1,215,752,193 [text/plain]
100%[===========================================================================
16:57:49 (98.64 MB/s) - `-' saved [1215752193/1215752193]
1215752193
# ls -la /var/www/large
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100000000001 2003-10-14 20:06 /var/www/large
# w3m -dump localhost
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
---------------------------------------------------------------
[DIR] Parent Directory 15-Oct-2003 10:15 -
[DIR] albums/ 07-May-2003 15:03 -
[DIR] apache2-default/ 29-Aug-2003 17:29 -
[DIR] docbook-dsssl/ 31-May-2003 09:59 -
[DIR] dwww/ 15-Oct-2003 14:04 -
[TXT] index.html_ 28-Apr-2003 09:50 4k
[TXT] large 14-Oct-2003 20:06 1159M
[DIR] usr/ 24-Jul-2003 01:15 -
---------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.28 Server at localhost Port 80
Eduard.
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