"Value too large for defined data type"?

["Eric N. Valor" <eric.valor@lutris.com>]

While attempting to untar a very large file (~3gb I believe) I get an error:

"Value too large for defined data type"

I have never seen this before, nor understand what it means.  I can ls the 
file, but can't "ls -l".  Neither will du or anything else cope (all fail 
with the same error).  I've looked through the archives but haven't found 
anything with that error statement.

I'm using a 2.4.2 kernel.

Please reply to "eric.valor@lutris.com" as I've had to unsub from the list 
in order to cut down on mail traffic.

Thanks.
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Eric N. Valor
Webmeister/Inetservices
Lutris Technologies
eric.valor@lutris.com

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